Jan. 13, Friday -- The promises and pitfalls of freer trade for California agriculture will be the focus of a conference in Sacramento examining the impact of the 12-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The conference will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., featuring three panels of experts. Keynote speakers will be Jason Hafemeister of the U.S. Trade Representative's Office, speaking on what agriculture can expect from the World Trade Organization's 2001 Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha, Qatar, and Sacramento Bee political columnist Dan Walters, discussing California in the 21st century. Panelists will include faculty members from UC Davis and UC Berkeley. A complete agenda for the conference, sponsored by the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics at the University of California, is available online at http://giannini.ucop.edu/events.htm.