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Senate Committee on Agriculture
AGENDA
Room 28 and Zoom
March 21, 2023 - March 24, 2023
Last Updated 3/24/2023 10:56 AM
Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are livestreamed at https://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/streaming/senate-agriculture.
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
9:30 AM Senate Floor
15 minutes after Senate adjourns Organic Dairy Farm Crisis
Jen Miller, Farmer Services Director, NOFA-VT
Michael O'Grady, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
12:00 PM Committee Adjourns
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
9:00 AM Solar Power on Farms
Abbie Corse, Dairy Farmer and Co-Chair of Subcommittee on Agriculture and Ecosystems, Vermont Climate Council
Peter Sterling, Director, Renewable Energy Vermont
9:50 AM Break
10:45 AM Committee Adjourns
10:00 AM Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition
Update
Brian Kemp, President, Central Vermont Farmers Coalition
Leanna Copagna
Ramsey Melish
11:00 AM Senate Floor
Thursday, March 23, 2023
9:00 AM Small Farms Day
Maddie Kempner, Policy Director, NOFA VT
Kirsten Murphy, Land Access and Opportunity Board
Jack Thomas, Aspiring Market Farmer
Sadie Farris, Farmer, Council Member, Vermont Youth Council
Ernest A.(Buster) Caswell, Farm Worker Housing Advocate, Milton
Caroline Gordon, Legislative Director, Rural Vermont
Jess Laporte, Land Access and Opportunity Board, Rights and Democracy
10:15 AM Committee Adjourns
11:00 AM Senate Floor
Friday, March 24, 2023
9:00 AM Crop Damage Liability
Rebecca White, Risk Management Director of Operations, Agency of Administration
Christopher Herrick, M.Ed., Commissioner, Department of Fish and Wildlife
Catherine Gjessing, General Counsel, Department of Fish & Wildlife
Steven Collier, General Counsel, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
Mary White, Fort Waite Holsteins LLC, Corinth, VT
Jane Clifford, Dairy Producer, Clifford Farm, LLC (9:45 AM)
10:10 AM Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
Funding requested by Agency
Anson Tebbetts, Secretary, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
Steven Collier, General Counsel, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
10:45 AM Committee Adjourns
11:30 AM Senate Floor
ATTENTION WITNESSES
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If you have any questions or comments, please contact
Linda Leehman at lleehman@leg.state.vt.us