Senate Committee on Agriculture

 

AGENDA

 

Room 26

January 22, 2019 - January 25, 2019

Last Updated 3/13/2019 10:43 AM

 

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

15 minutes after Floor                   Vermont Farm Bureau

Farmer introductions

Ethan Allen Room

Joseph Tisbert, President, Vermont Farm Bureau

Mike Isham

Roger Osinchuk

Arthur Whitman

Terry Gulick

Sara Griswold

Murray Thompson

Chip Hellus, Vice President, Vermont Farm Bureau

Mary White

Jennifer Lambert

Bruce Shields, Vice President, Vermont Farm Bureau

Anne Tisbert, Valley Dream Farm

 

11:15 AM                   19-0792 - An act relating to a committee bill that amends wetlands statutes to exempt certain farming activities from permitting or permitting fees

 Ethan Allen Room

John Hollar, Lawyer, Downs Rachlin Martin

Trey Martin, Lawyer, Downs Rachlin Martin

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

9:00 AM                   The Future of Farming in Vermont

Ethan Allen Room

Chuck Ross, Director, University of Vermont Extension

Ela Chapin, Farm and Forest Viability Program Director, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board

Paul Costello, Executive Director, Vermont Council on Rural Development

Roger Allbee, Former Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets

Dan Smith, Consultant, Consultant

 

Thursday, January 24, 2019

9:00 AM                   The Future of Farming in Vermont

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Ellen Kahler, Executive Director, Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund

 

9:30 AM                   Dairy Commission Report

Joint Hearing with House Agriculture and Forestry Committee

Ethan Allen Room

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

 

10:30 AM                   Green Mountain Dairy Farmers

Margaret Laggis, Lobbyist, Green Mountain Dairy Farmers

 

11:00 AM                   Workers Compensation

Michael Pieciak, Commissioner, Department of Financial Regulation

 

Friday, January 25, 2019

9:00 AM                   19-0108 - An act relating to agricultural development

Advanced wood heating

Abby White, Director of Communications, Efficiency Vermont

Jake Marin, HVAC Program Manager, Efficiency Vermont

Adam Sherman, Interim Director, Biomass Energy Resource Center

 

10:00 AM                   Agriculture Environmental Stewardship

Joint Hearing with House Natural Resources, Fish, and Wildlife Committee, Senate Agriculture Committee, and  Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee

Room 11

 

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

Chuck Ross, Director, University of Vermont Extension

Jeff Carter, Agronomist/Soil Scientist, UVM Extension

Josh Faulkner, UVM Extension

Heather Darby, Agronomy Specialist, UVM Extension

Amy Richardson, Connecticut River Watershed Farmers Alliance

Scott Magnan, Franklin and Grand Isle Farmer's Watershed Alliance

Jack Lazor, Owner, Butterworks Farm

Tim Kayhart, Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition

 

11:30 AM                   Implicit Bias Training

Ethan Allen Room

 

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