House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Room 49)

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

9:00 AM

Grazing and Pasture Management

Transitioning conventional dairy to grazing

• Heather Darby, Associate Professor, UVM Extension

10:15 AM

Break

10:30 AM

Rural Vermont and NOFA-VT

Joint Hearing with Senate Agriculture Committee
Livestream here.

• Caroline Gordon, Legislative Director, Rural Vermont
• Maddie Kempner, Policy Director, NOFA VT
• Rose Thackeray, Union Brook Farm
• Emily Virzi, Union Brook Farm
• Shawn Lenihan, Kismet Farm
• - Chris, West Crescent Farm
• Stephen Leslie, Owner, Cedar Mountain Farm and Cobb Hill Cheese
• Cat Buxton, Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition

12:00 PM

Committee Adjourns

1:15 PM

House Floor

15 minutes after Floor adjourns

S.102 - An act relating to the regulation of agricultural inputs for farming

• Steven Collier, General Counsel, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
• Ellen Czajkowski, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Counsel
• Abbey Willard, Director, Agricultural Development Division, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets
• Cary Giguere, Policy Director, Public Health and Agricultural Resource Management, Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets

3:30 PM

Committee Adjourns