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House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
AGENDA
Via Zoom January 19, 2021 - January 22, 2021 Last Updated 1/22/2021 2:28 PM
Meetings are livestreamed here unless otherwise noted
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 10:00 AM House Floor
Following the Floor Implicit Bias Prevention Training
12:15 PM Lunch and Caucuses
2:00 PM Agri-Mark Farmers Margaret Laggis, Lobbyist, Agri-Mark Rob Wheeler, Dairy Farmer and Board Member, Agri-Mark Marie Audet, Farmer, Agri-Mark Paul Doton, Dairy Farmer and Board Member, Agri-Mark
2:45 PM Wood Products Kathleen Wanner, Executive Director, Vermont Woodlands Association, Administrator, Vermont Wood Works Council
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 9:00 AM Vermont Dairy Producers Alliance Amanda St. Pierre, Executive Director, Vermont Dairy Producers Alliance Brian Carpenter, Board Member VT Dairy Producers Alliance, Champlain Valley Equiptment Jacob Bourdeau, Owner, Bourdeau Bros Inc and Feed Commodities Inc Chanin Hill , Secretary, Vermont Dairy Producers Alliance Cayden Theberge, Member, Vermont Dairy Producers Alliance Walter Gladstone, Board Member, Vermont Dairy Producers Alliance Stephanie Pope
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM University of Vermont Extension
Leslie Parise, Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont Dan Lerner, Association Director and Chair, State Office, UVM Extension Heather Darby, Associate Professor, UVM Extension Lisa Chase , Professor of Agronomy, UVM Extension Mark Cannella, Associate Professor, UVM Extension Sarah Kleinman, Director of 4-H, Farmworker, and Family Education Programs, UVM Extension Kate Forrer, Outreach Specialist, UVM Extension Urban & Community Forestry
12:00 PM Committee Adjourns
1:15 PM House Floor
15 minutes after Floor Adjourns Salvation Farms Theresa Snow, Director, Salvation Farms Greta Hasler, Strategy and Advocacy Coordinator, Salvation Farms
2:30 PM Congressional Delegation Tom Berry, Policy Advisor on Agriculture, Conservation, Energy and Natural Resources, Office of Sen. Leahy Erica Campbell, Outreach Representative, Office of Senator Bernie Sanders Ryan McLaren, Outreach Representative, Office of Congressman Peter Welch Andrew Bahrenburg, Organizer, Advocate, Office of Senator Patrick Leahy
3:30 PM Committee Adjourns
Thursday, January 21, 2021 9:00 AM Center For an Agricultural Economy Jon Ramsey, Executive Director, Center for an Agricultural Economy Michael Heath, Center for an Agricultural Economy
9:45 AM Vermont Forest Products Association Ed Larson, Lobbyist, Vermont Forest Products Association
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM Vermont Council on Rural Development Paul Costello, Executive Director, Vermont Council on Rural Development
11:25 AM Committee Adjourns
1:15 PM House Floor
15 minutes after Floor adjourns H. 88 - An act relating to certification of agricultural use for purposes of the use value appraisal program Rep. David Durfee, Bill Sponsor - Invited
- H. 67 - An act relating to bears doing damage to agricultural crops Rep. James Harrison, Sponsor
2:45 PM Forest Carbon Nick Richardson, President & CEO, Vermont Housing & Conservation Coalition Bill Roper, Land Use Consultant, Slow Communities
3:30 PM Committee Adjourns
Friday, January 22, 2021 9:30 AM House Floor
15 minutes after Floor adjournment Vermont Association of Conservation Districts Jill Arace, Executive Director, Vermont Association of Conservation Districts Hilary Solomon, Manager, Poultney-Mettowee Natural Resources Conservation District Brodie Haenke, Conservation Specialist, Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation District Justin Michaud, Conservation Planner, Newport, Vermont Association of Conservation Districts Jennifer Byrne, District Manager, White RIver Natural Resources Conservation District
11:30 AM Committee Adjourns
ATTENTION WITNESSES
Please email handouts to the committee assistant at least 24 hours before your scheduled meeting time. With few exceptions, any documents you send to a committee assistant, are open to the public and may be posted to the committee’s web page.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Linda Leehman at lleehman@leg.state.vt.us
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