I think we’ll go ahead and begin. My name is Gene Hugoson. I’m the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and we would like to welcome all of you here today for this, the second listening session, that USDA -- U.S. Trade Representative’s Office is holding around the United States. On behalf of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, we’re extremely pleased to be able to host this event today and want to extend our appreciation to my colleagues from Wisconsin and North Dakota and South Dakota who -- Secretary Cruea from South Dakota will be joining us a little later as soon as his plane gets in. And we are going -- our first scheduled speaker for today is Governor Ventura who is tied up in traffic. The Governor of North Dakota made it here but we haven’t got Governor Ventura yet. So it’s -- it’s -- but he’s coming. I suppose light rail, if we had that, that would have solved that, that problem. Let me begin by expressing my appreciation to USDA/United States Trade Representative’s Office for being willing to host these listening session -- or to take part in these listening sessions. Certainly their commitment to work together with the States on this effort is a good signal of the type of cooperation that we believe trade -- international trade offers for our production agriculture, and the necessity of us all working together to have that happen; the government at the federal level, government at the state level and private industry working together to achieve what’s going to be best for the production agriculture segment in each of our four states. With that in mind, I’m just going to make some brief comments and then turn it over to Secretary Brancel from Wisconsin and Commissioner Johnson from North Dakota until Governor Ventura gets here and then we will -- we will break when Governor Ventura comes for both he and Governor Schafer from North Dakota to make their presentations. Certainly, when we look at what’s gone on in agriculture over the last year and seen the devastation that low prices have caused, much of which is because of a break of our ability to export products overseas. We recognize how important international trade really is. Therefore, the upcoming WTO sessions in Seattle at the end of this month and the beginning of next month take on new importance. Certainly, decisions and agreements that are made at this session in Seattle will have long-range impact for years to come. I think if there are a couple things that we’ve learned from the past, and a couple of things that could be done in terms of these upcoming sessions, we’ve learned this. One of the weaknesses we have at this particular time is that when there are disagreements the means of trying to address those shortcomings are extremely slow, extremely costly and take just a long time to rectify a problem that does exist. If there’s some way that we can come up with some type of a process that would allow those infractions that occur to be able to be addressed more quickly and less costly, it certainly would be a good idea. The other thing I think that we’ve learned that even as some of us from the upper Midwest states have had some trade issues with our neighboring partner to the north, Canada, we’ve also learned from a session that Roger Johnson, myself, Darrell Cruea from South Dakota and Ralph Peck from Montana, just recently had last week out in Montana, where we had a session with our Canadian counterparts from across the border, and come to find out that we actually have a lot more in common with them than we do differences. And, certainly, when we look at some of the upcoming issues that involves the European Union, we have -- we’re on the same side of some of those issues, whether we’re talking about GMOs, whether we’re talking about some of the subsidy issues that go on in the -- in the EU. It seems to me that there are areas where we and Canada can work closely together to address those issues and not so much concentration on some of the things that tend to divide us. Mostly of which is attributable to the exchange rate in the currency between the two countries. But, again, let me emphasize that from our perspective the ability for American ag products, and from those from the upper Midwest especially as we’re concentrating on here today, to be able to export those commodities to as many places as possible is extremely important. And anything that we can do together with the Federal government to help in that area would be greatly appreciated. So to those of you from USDA, U.S. Trade Representatives Office and the Department of State, we want to welcome you here. We’ll do the formal introductions a little bit later. But thank you for -- for taking part. With that I would like to ask Secretary Ben Brancel from Wisconsin to make a few comments and then we’ll go on to Roger after that. Thank you.