House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry

 

AGENDA

 

 

April 20, 2021 - April 23, 2021

Last Updated 4/22/2021 9:58 AM

 

Meetings are livestreamed here unless otherwise noted

 

 

 

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

10:00 AM                   House Floor

Caucuses will be held following the Floor adjournment

 

1:00 PM                   Forestry issues

Michael Snyder, Commissioner, Forests. Parks and Recreation

 

3:30 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

9:15 AM                   Agricultural Housing

Joint hearing with House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs. Livestream here.

Ernest A. Caswell , Farm Worker Housing Activist, Milton

Marita Canedo, Representative, Migrant Justice

Tom Fritzsche, Executive Director, Milk with Dignity Standards Council

Gus Seelig, Executive Director, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board

Liz Gleason, Director, VHCB Farm and Forest Viability Program

Dan Baker, Professor of Community Development and Applied Economics, UVM

John Ryan, Owner, Development Cycles

 

Following Joint Hearing                   Committee Check-In

 

12:00 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

1:15 PM                   House Floor

 

15 minutes after House Floor adjourns                   Committee Check-In

 

3:30 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

Thursday, April 22, 2021

9:00 AM                   Working Lands Enterprise Board

Enterprise Finance Options

Joint hearing with Senate Agriculture Committee

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

Eric DeLuca, Enterprise Financing Options Committee Chair, Working Lands Enterprise Board

Janice St.Onge, President, Flexible Capital Fund

Jon Ramsey, Executive  Director, Center for an Agricultural Economy

Lane Fury, Cooperative Fund of New England

Benneth Phelps, Dirt Capital Partners

Joel Moyer, Fair Food Fund

Janice St. Onge, President, Flexible Capital Fund

Gaye Symington, Executive Director, High Meadows Fund

Michael Philipp, Regenerative Food Network

Will Belongia, Vermont Community Loan Fund

Sarah Isham, Director of Agricultural Lending, Vermont Economic Development Authority

Siobhan Smith, Vermont Land Trust

Dave Lane, Senior Vice President, Yankee Farm Credit

 

10:30 AM                   Break

 

10:45 AM                   Committee Work

 

12:00 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

1:15 PM                   House Floor

 

15 minutes after Floor adjourns                   Agricultural Housing

Liz Gleason, Director, VHCB Farm and Forest Viability Program

Gus Seelig, Executive Director, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board

 

3:30 PM                   Committee Adjourns

 

Friday, April 23, 2021

9:30 AM                   House Floor

 

10:00 AM                   Council on State Government

Webinar

 

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