Working Landscape In the News
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House Supports Bill To Preserve Working Landscape Vermont Public Radio ~ (Host) The House has given its strong support to legislation that's designed to provide opportunities to strengthen the state's agricultural sector. The legislation allocates just over $2 million to help launch new businesses and to create a manufacturing and processing infrastructure to support those ventures. VPR's Bob Kinzel has more: (Kinzel) Backers of the bill said the legislation is needed if Vermont is going to maintain a working landscape... |
03/29/2012 Vermont Public Radio |
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Vermont House of Representatives Supports Working Lands Bill: House gives initial approval to bill with non-partisan vote MONTPELIER, VT – The Vermont House of Representatives gave initial approval for the Working Lands Enterprise Investment bill (H.496) on Thursday afternoon with a 131-5 vote. The bill includes a little more than a $2 million appropriation for a new fund to be directed toward economic development investment in agricultural and forest products enterprises. The bill will be considered for final passage in the House on Friday, and then will move on to the Senate for consideration. read more... |
03/29/2012 Press Release |
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Working Lands Investments allocated $2.1 million; House vote is Thursday Parallel bills to invest in rural economic development have cleared key hurdles in the House and the Senate, and the House version is scheduled for a vote Thursday. The bills create a Working Lands Enterprise Fund, which would invest state money in grants and loans to businesses related to the rural economy, infrastructure like slaughter facilities and incubator kitchens, and direct services to businesses related to the farm, food, and forest economies. read more... |
03/29/2012 VtDigger.org |
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Letter to the Editor: Support our working landscape SANDGATE ~ If you love the beautiful setting of Vermont, with its rolling farmlands graced with forested backdrops of the Green Mountains or Taconic Range, then thank a farmer, a forester or a logger. These hardworking folks with sore backs and bummed knees work from dark to dark, with no vacation plans, holidays or sick days. These are the people who create and maintain Vermont's working landscape, a brand known worldwide and appreciated by all its in inhabitants. read more... |
03/29/2012 Manchester Journal |
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Buckingham: Growing our future economy This op-ed is by Scott Buckingham, an independent consultant living in Hinesburg and a member of the Public Policy Committee of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. read more... |
03/27/2012 VtDigger.org |
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House Appropriations Committee to Take up Working Lands Bill The Vermont House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider the Working Lands Enterprise Investment Bill (H.496) Tuesday morning. The committee voted previously to set aside $2.1 million for possible funding for this bill. The bill would create the Working Lands Enterprise Fund and the Working Lands Enterprise Board, which will oversee the Fund. The intent is to stimulate a concerted economic development effort on behalf of Vermont’s agriculture and forest products sectors by... |
03/27/2012 Press Release |
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Screening: Lilac Ridge ~ Life on a Family Farm Rep. Mollie Burke has arranged for a screening of the 35-minute film, Lilac Ridge: Life on a Family Farm. Bring your lunch, enjoy the film, and chat with the filmmaker (and possibly, the farmers featured in the film). read more... |
03/19/2012 Self Published |
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Pass bill to support working landscape I am writing in support of The Working Lands Enterprise Investment Bill. This bill defines how Vermont can pull all of the opportunities, policies and new plans into one united efficient effort to support Vermont’s working lands economies. This bill will combine funding sources and policy to create an efficient system that helps Vermont’s working lands entrepreneurs to expand their businesses. read more... |
03/15/2012 Burlington Free Press |
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Working lands bill unanimously supported by House Agriculture House Agriculture Committee Votes Unanimously to Support the Bill read more... |
02/23/2012 VtDigger.org |
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House Agriculture Committee just says ‘yes’ to working lands bill MONTPELIER– Remember that “working lands” bill we wrote about a while back? Since then the House and Senate Agriculture committees have taken weeks of testimony on legislation that would create a board that would give out grants and loans, help provide technical support and help build up infrastructure for the farming and forest products industries. read more... |
02/23/2012 Vermont Press Bureau |
