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Vermont Farm Bureau backs farmer emergency relief bill but seeks broader review board and forestry inclusion
Summary
Jackie Folsom, president of the Vermont Farm Bureau, told the Senate agriculture committee the bureau supports S.60 (Farmer Emergency Relief Assistance) but urged removing size-based language, including forestry, and widening the review board membership; witnesses and senators discussed funding scale and distribution speed.
Jackie Folsom, president of the Vermont Farm Bureau, told the Senate Committee on Agriculture on Feb. 20 that the Farm Bureau supports S.60, a bill to create Farmer Emergency Relief Assistance, but raised three concerns about the draft language: references to "small and medium scale" farms in the findings, exclusion of forestry from eligibility, and the makeup of the review board that would allocate funds.
Folsom said Farm Bureau policy is size-neutral and suggested removing language that appears to limit the bill to small and medium farms. "We do not discriminate against size," she said, adding that the bureau…
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