Senate Committee on Agriculture

 

AGENDA

 

Room 26

March 26, 2019 - March 29, 2019

Last Updated 3/28/2019 4:16 PM

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

9:00 AM                   H. 275 - An act relating to the Farm-to-Plate Investment Program

Rep. Charen Fegard, Reporter

Ellen Kahler, Executive Director, Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund

 

10:15 AM                   Break

 

10:30 AM                   Retention of Superior Court Judges and Magistrates

Joint Assembly

 

1:30 PM                   St. Albans Cooperative Young Cooperators

Introductions and Issues

Senate Agriculture Room 26

 

4:00 PM                   2+2 Agriculture Education Program

Reception in Cedar Creek Room

 

Thursday, March 28, 2019

9:00 AM                   19-0792 - An act relating to farming activities in wetlands

Anson Tebbetts, Secretary, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets

 

9:30 AM                   On-farm Slaughter

Mary Lake, Shearer, butcher, and shepherd, Tunbridge, Vermont

Randy Quenneville, Section Chief, Meat Inspection Section, Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets

Andrea Stander, Policy Consultant, Rural Vermont

 

10:00 AM                   19-0792 - An act relating to farming activities in wetlands

Michael O'Grady, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Hannah Smith, Associate General Counsel, Department of Environmental Conservation

Marli Rupe, Agricultural Water Quality Section Chief, Department of Environmental Conservation

laura Lapierre, Wetlands Program Manager, Agency of Natural Resources

 

Friday, March 29, 2019

8:45 AM                   19-0792 - An act relating to farming activities in wetlands

Julie Moore, Secretary, Agency of Natural Resources

 

9:00 AM                   19-0792 - An act relating to farming activities in wetlands

Michael O'Grady, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Margaret Laggis, Lobbyist, Green Mountain Dairy Farmers

 

10:00 AM                   Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets

Budget presentation

Diane Bothfeld, Director of Administrative Services, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets

 

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

ATTENTION WITNESSES- Please email handouts to the committee assistant before your scheduled meeting date and bring 7 hard copies. Please write your name, organization, date and title on each document. With few exceptions, any documents you hand out to a committee, or send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s webpage.

 

If you have any questions and comments, please contact

 Linda Leehman at 802-828-2233 or lleehman@leg.state.vt.us