Senate Committee on Agriculture

 

AGENDA

 

Via Zoom

February 16, 2021 - February 19, 2021

Last Updated 2/19/2021 9:54 AM

 

Meetings are livestreamed here unless otherwise noted

 

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

9:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

15 minutes after Floor adjourns                   21-0377 - An act relating to the use of food residuals for farming

Cathy Jamieson, Program Manager, WMPD Solid Waste Program, Department of Environmental Conservation

Caroline Gordon, Legislative Director, Rural Vermont

 

11:15 AM                   Break

 

11:30 AM                   Housing for Agricultural Workers

Dan Baker, Professor, UVM

Ernest A. Caswell, (Buster)

 

12:00 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

9:00 AM                   21-0378 - An act relating to universal school breakfast and lunch for all public school students and to creating incentives for schools to purchase locally produced foods

Rosie Krueger, State Director of Child Nutrition Programs, Agency of Education

Faye Mack, Advocacy and Education Director, Hunger Free Vermont

Betsy Rosenbluth, Vermont FEED Project Director, Vermont Farm to School Network

James DesMarais, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel

Trevor Lowell, Farm to Institution Program Director, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets

 

10:15 AM                   Break

 

10:30 AM                   New England Agribusiness and Feed Alliance

Margaret Laggis, Lobbyist, America's Health Insurance Plans

John Clark, President, Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance

Andy Dugan, Executive Committee member; Chair, Government Relations Committee, Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance

Rick Zimmerman, Executive Director, Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance

Arthur Whitman, Vermont Seed Dealers Association, member

 

11:15 AM                   Vermont Fairs and Field Days Association

update

Jackie Folsom, Lobbyist, Vermont Fairs and Field Days Association

Nola Gilbert, Treasurer, Franklin County Field Days

Richard Lawrence, President & Director, Caledonia County Fair

Jeff Bartley, Sales/Marketing Manager, Champlain Valley Exposition

Diane Norris, President, Addison County Fair and Field Days

Robert Congdon, Vermont State Fair, Rutland

 

12:00 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

-                                   Caucus of the Whole

Update on the State's vaccination efforts

 

Thursday, February 18, 2021

9:00 AM                   Vermont Housing and Conservation Coalition

Joint hearing with House Agriculture and Forestry Committee

livestream here

Abby White, Vice President for Strategic Communications, Vermont Land Trust

Clara Ayer, Fairmont Farms, East Montpelier

Don Stevens, Chief, Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation

Katie Rose Leonard, Snow Farm

Stephanie Pope, Iroquois Acres

Barrett Grimm, Co-Chair, Huntington Conservation Commission

 

10:00 AM                   Committee Adjourns

 

10:30 AM                   Election of a Sergeant at Arms, an Adjutant and Inspector General, and Trustees of the UVM and State Agricultural College

Joint Assembly

 

1:00 PM                   Senate Floor

 

Friday, February 19, 2021

9:00 AM                   21-0377 - An act relating to the use of food residuals for farming

Cathy Jamieson, Program Manager, WMPD Solid Waste Program, Department of Environmental Conservation

Cary Giguere, Policy Director, Public Health and Agricultural Resource Management, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets

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

Kelley McGill, Law Clerk, Office of Legislative Counsel

Caroline Gordon, Legislative Director, Rural Vermont

 

11:15 AM                   Committee Adjourns

 

11:30 AM                   Senate Floor

 

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