We’re returning to Omaha and the Downtown Doubletree Hotel for our annual meeting. This year’s meeting will be a one-day affair on July 21st. However, our program will be hard
hitting as usual, and is guaranteed to include some of the brightest minds in the country on Agricultural economics, law, and policy. We’ll have the organizational business meeting in the morning, a program with three or four panels in the afternoon and our banquet in the evening. Among the panelists will be David Domina, a distinguished attorney, and Dr. Daryll Ray, an expert on farm bill and trade issues. Dr. Roger Mc Eowen, our most recent OCM Fellow, will be our featured speaker for the banquet. Dr. Mc Eowen is a distinguished Economist and Attorney at Iowa State University and is widely published in scholarly journals and agricultural law reviews. He will speak on the effects of globalization and free trade.

We’re still working on finalizing the program agenda, which will deal with farm bill issues, trade, pertinent court cases (Pickett & South Dakota) and their impact on the Packers and Stock-
yards Act and Antitrust Law, and many other relevant topics central to OCM’s mission of a fair marketplace for independent agriculture.

We have a block of rooms reserved at $85 + tax. Just ask for the OCM block. The address is Downtown Doubletree Hotel, 1616 Dodge Street and the reservation telephone number is 402-346-7600. Make your reservation early and join with us for another informative and productive meeting.

– REGISTER TODAY – (To use our online registration form, click here, print out form, fill out and send form to: Organization for Competitive Markets, PO Box 6486, Lincoln, NE 68506)

GLOBALIZATION/FREE
TRADE Conference

One of the reasons we’ve shorted the annual meeting is to provide for more intensive focus on the first of a planned series of conferences on Globalization and Free Trade. For the first conference, we’ve contracted with Glen Eyrie, a first rate conference center in Colorado Springs, to convene forty people November 15-17 to examine and bring public awareness to what we believe to be the ominous aspects of Globalization/Free Trade as it is currently being conducted.

OCM will work with other agricultural-related organizations and other interests to organize and conduct these meetings. I have been gratified to find enthusiastic support for our sister organizations and also many non-agricultural interests. Seems that most thinking people understand that the only way to compete in the global marketplace with third world countries is to become a third world country. They’ve seen the effects of NAFTA and want to be a part of bringing about change, and restoring America’s promise of opportunity.

We’re not merely planning for a bland rehashing of the data and information, but rather an in-depth and comprehensive examination combined with an all-out media campaign. We want to be totally accurate and truthful in presenting the facts, but hope to underscore the harm to agriculture, rural America and other vital national interests that is being caused by all aspects of the global reordering that is taking place, including the conduct of our foreign trade and current immigration policy.

We plan for the conference to receive an enormous amount of media coverage and expect that a book and perhaps a couple of documentaries will result from the effort.

We have contracted for accommodations for 40 people, which will primarily be those contributing to the conference. There will be room for a very limited number of observers but anyone desiring to attend should check with the OCM office.

We’re going to make a compelling case that will prompt voters to come out of their apathy and act. Stay Tuned!FS