Task Force to Revitalize the Vermont Dairy Industry

Monday, September 26, 2022

9:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions

• Dan Smith, Co-Chair, Task Force to Revitalize the Vermont Dairy Industry
• Senator Robert Starr, Co-Chair, Task Force to Revitalize the Vermont Dairy Industry

9:15 AM

Milk Production and Processing in Vermont

Vermont dairy industry structure and how this market structure might conceptually support a state order-order milk price regulation, and a handler fee/tier payment system.

• Dan Smith, Former Founding Executive Director, Northeast Dairy Compact Commission

10:15 AM

Break

10:30 AM

Milk Production and Processing in Vermont

Continued

11:15 AM

Legality of State Pricing

Presentation of Report by Brandon Denning on the legality of a Vermont state order-order milk price regulation, and a handler fee/tier payment system

• Brandon P. Denning, Starnes Professor of Law, Samford Law School (Birmingham AL)

11:45 AM

Concluding Comments

12:00 PM

Adjournment