Events
Ag Summit V - April 21, 2011
A
special THANKS to the organizations who sponpored the Ag Summit V:
AgroFarma, NBT Bank,
Farm Credit East, Commerce Chenango and Baker's Maple.
Without our wonderful sponsors this great event
wouldn't have been possible!
Results from our brainstorming sessions:
Ideas for ADC:
- Connect to inner city markets
- Work with restaurants
- Local Food Co-op or Farmers’ Market Store (saving on the
farmer’s market time)
- CNY Bounty Concept --> NYC
- More support (time & money) to CNY (Bounty?) to
expand to Cooperstown, etc.
- Social media marketing
- Marketing training
- Processing Plants
- Commercial Kitchen
- Educate markets on what they should allow/more
flexibility
- Partner with another community with different products
- Support CSA’s
- Education: biodeiesel/ethanol (energy/crops)
- Increase microgrant
- Increase Facebook presence for farms
- Ag workforce training – facilitate/advocate
- Work through Youth Bureau – SYTEP
- What it means to work on the farm… (promote)
- More winter crop production/ available in off-season
(high tunnels, storage, warehousing)
- Encourage growth of Chenango Farmers’ Market (EBT,
vendors/more products/marketing)
- Work with existing store/sellers to offer more local
products
- Buy local education/economic impact
Ideas for NYS:
- Lighten up Farmers’ Markets Regulations
- Ag/Workforce training
- Regional set up for far farmers markets modeled after
Regional Access
- Regulations for Organic Slaughterhouses/certifier for
plants
- Support/work with paperwork to become a certified organic
slaughterhouse
- Mobile cheese-making/slaughterhouse units funding
- Transition/succession planning
- Reinstate programs for purchasing development rights
- Buy local education/economic impact
- Help with business planning
- Help finding investors
- H2A – NYS lobby for better
- Overtime = NO!
- More youth agriculture education
- Infrastructure for ag businesses (roads, hubs, markets,
slaughterhouse facilities)
- Secondary ag suppliers/vendors
- EatSmart NY – support
- Biodiesel processing plant funding (NYS)
- Secondary costs of processed foods
- Less regulation
- Larger voice in Albany
- Out of state marketing of NY Agriculture
- Funds
for beginning farmers
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Wood
Resource Public Forum – April 26, 2011
THANK YOU to the
sponsors from the Wood Resource Forum: Baillies Lumber, Commerce Chenango, CCE
Chenango County, and Chenango County ADC
Attendee Groups:
- Logger,
consulting forester, firewood cutter, town supervisor, county official, county
planning, maple producer, landowner, pellet manufacturing, sawmill staff, Farm
Bureau, MFO
- 36
attendees
Discussion Presentations-
presentations to introduce topics for consideration
- Emerald
Ash Borer and other invasive and native pests
- Gas
infrastructure
- Timber
Market
- Income
Opportunities
Opportunities:
- Forest
Education
- Public
education of Forest Product benefits
- Continuing
education for teachers (such as the WAC model)
- Bring
NYLT local
- Reach
out to Landowners
- More
1 on 1 education and wood walks
- More
DEC private lands foresters
- Succession
(land transfer) planning workshop
- Increasing
demands for wood energy
- More
awareness of wood energy
Take
advantage of: Chenango County Chamber Government Affairs committee & Farm
Bureau Legislation Forest Policy
Barriers:
- Local
road ordinances
- Timber
theft
- Ignorance
- Lack
of management on state land
- Let
the State Foresters be allowed to manage the land
- Regeneration
(we should have included this as one of the introduction presentations)
- Climate
change
- Fear
of change or management by the public
- Labor
- The
need for a low grade market
- Cost
to get started – equipment
- Infrastructure
– more markets
- Cost
of doing business
- Wood
burning policies
- Old
and current utility ROW leases
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