Representative Tommy Thompson

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (26:11)

on line 32 or line 31 of the bill, it's monthly, not yearly.

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (23:38)

now it's stamped on there, used by X whatever date. How will that be handled with this kind of milk? Well, there are

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (23:07)

they've got enough milk to store, they've got enough refrigeration to store their milk. But if you're talking about trying to store 500 gallons of milk, then you're going to have to have some type of facility to store that in that needs to have public health maintaining that that's done correctly at the right temperature. and how will they establish what the, you know, you go buy a gallon of milk,

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (22:33)

You do not have a physical impact statement on what it would cost? No. Now, I suspect it's going to be in the half million to a million dollars just to put the lab in to hire the personnel that would be needed and the transportation that would be needed to go back and forth to sample that milk. My next question is there about maintaining the milk for sale. Most of the places that are just milking their own cows,

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (21:59)

it doesn't have any guidelines on how much inspection and i suspect if as many emails as i've received about this of people having one cow or three goats or whatever if they're not in some kind of registration system to where the Board of Health is going to know where to go that this will get out of control.

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (21:23)

The many, many years that I've worked with dairy farmers, Testing and butterfat solids were important, very important. And you need a testing program in line where you can keep that at the levels it needs to be. The barns at Great A Dairies are inspected on a regular basis. and nowhere you know you say they're subject to inspection but it doesn't have a time frame

Meeting — March 15, 2013 (21:13)

Mr. Chair. I, too, have concerns about the health issues.

Meeting — Jan. 29, 2013 (39:39)

And do they determine what percentage they want to move

Meeting — Jan. 29, 2013 (38:13)

reporting process do we have any figures that tell us how many dollars they're actually moving out

Meeting — Jan. 29, 2013 (38:03)

a question. Thank you, Mr. Chair. gentlemen of the 31,000 corporations that are moving money out of Arkansas in their

Meeting — Jan. 23, 2013 (11:50)

University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, I retired and thought I was out. And some of my friends talked me into getting into politics. This is my second term, and looking forward to working on the Ag Committee.

Meeting — Jan. 22, 2013 (24:41)

question thank you mr. chair in the back on the 1213 chart it talks about the estimated general then it says less and it in that big era it names all those different services

Meeting — Jan. 17, 2013 (29:35)

my wife Diane and I have three daughters and nine grandkids this is my second term and I'm looking forward to

Meeting — Jan. 17, 2013 (29:11)

which is all of Conway County, and probably 75% of Perry County. Graduated from the University of Arkansas a couple of times. Worked for the University of Arkansas in the Division of Agriculture for 38 years, and retired back in 2009.

Boys State — June 1, 2012 (2:16:32)

Law companies are very similar to oil companies to where they go to one spot and they have several pieces of heavy equipment that they use and other things like that, like gravel trucks maybe going down a road or something like that poultry trucks may travel in the same road several times and this is just to make it fair on other companies operating big rigs and larger trucks so that's

Boys State — June 1, 2012 (2:16:22)

committee. If you're not against it, you don't want to. And the motion is to extend this to other companies that operate larger trucks on roads.

Boys State — June 1, 2012 (2:15:45)

recognized to explain the bill. uh i'd like to motion to uh refer back to committee again

Boys State — June 1, 2012 (1:46:32)

we legalized marijuana, would marijuana be a drug, or would it be, like, a legal drug, or a legal drug?

Boys State — June 1, 2012 (1:45:56)

To ask a question. You're recognized. Yes, I would like to ask a question. What kind of drug test does this bill entail, and what would be the cost of something like this?

Boys State — June 1, 2012 (1:23:11)

I was not the sponsor of this bill. It was Mr. Tanner over here. We got switched up, I guess. So, confide.