Contacts

Farm Services Agency
Des Moines office
Jim Book, Director
515-254-1540, ext-460

Farm Services Agency
Harlan, Iowa office
Steve Leucke
712-755-5116

G&R Feed and Grain Company (which purchased 950 bushels of the suspect corn on Jan. 9, 2003)
712-743-2425

List of the large terminal grain merchandisers who take about 80% of the grain in the Harlan area:
Bunge Corporation 712-328-2389 or 712-366-3600
Bartlett & Company 712-322-3444
Cargill Inc. 712-325-2700

Don Hansen
Shelby Veterinary Clinic
(One of Jerry Rosman's veterinarians)
800-947-1662 clinic
402-660-1343 cell
712-343-6748 home

Steve Kock
Mid States Farm Management
receiver who bought suspect corn in court proceedings on Sept. 16
712-755-2075

Hancock grain elevator
elevator slated in September to receive suspect corn
712-741-5437

Harlan Elevator
another local elevator that might take some or all of the corn
712-755-3192

Portsmith Elevator
another local elevator that could potentially take some or all of the corn
712-743-5014

Dr. Mark Rasmussen 515-663-7350
lead researcher at National Animal Disease Center, ARS, USDA

Dr. Caird Rexroad (202-720-3658), Associate Administrator for ARS

David Shipman the Deputy Administrator of Food Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) 202-720-0219

Bobby Acord, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), 202-720-3668

Robert Lake at the FDA 301-436-2668
Director of Regulations and Policy, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA

Senator Tom Harkin, 202 224-3254

Susan Keith, Majority Senior Professional Staff Member, Committee on Agriculture, 202-224-2035
Senator Harkin's point person on this issue

Jerry Rosman
Farmer
Harlan, Iowa
712-579-1130 cell
712-755-5375 home
712-235-3300 fax (call first to get it set up)

Lori Sokoloski
Iowa Farmers Union
712-368-2464

Chris Bedford
The Humane Society of the United States
240-432-7520

Brent Blackwelder
President, Friends of the Earth
202-783-7400 x284

Larry Bohlen
Friends of the Earth
202-783-7400 x251
202-270-1547 cell