45 Quotes by Jim Peterson

We stand ready to vigorously defend the NAFTA and we will take all steps open to us to ensure it is respected.

We're going to examine this decision very carefully. My message is very simple: We want the U.S. to live up to and respect the Nafta.

We would welcome the decision to repeal the Byrd amendment. But we strongly maintain that the Byrd amendment should be eliminated immediately. The WTO ruling was clear.

There are no experts out there willing to testify that because these guys are testing negative now that they will continue to test negative. The jury is still out and will be out for a long time as to whether these people are disease free. It might be five, 10, 15 years down the road before we know whether they'll continue to test negative.

We have said all along that the Byrd amendment must be withdrawn,

We're grinding the trees first to try and break down into finer pieces, so we can extract the needles.

Significant challenges remain ... including what can be achieved in Hong Kong in December so we need to continue to press as hard as we can,

Obviously, that's another factor that's going to play into spring wheat trends.

I'd like to see it keep going, but it's just not there. We're getting less and less people in there and the overhead keeps going up. I don't know what else to do.