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Agriculture Steering Committee
Updated Feb. 8, 2012
Chair
- Dan Andrews, Harnett County Commissioner
Vice Chair
- Cookie Pope, Johnston County Commissioner
NCACC Staff
- Jason King, Assistant Communications Director
- Latonia Strickland, Legislative Research Analyst
Members and Intergovernmental Partners
- Debbie Hamrick, N.C. Farm Bureau Federation Specialty Crops Director
- Charlie Horne, Chatham County Manager
- Dan Hunsucker, Catawba County Commissioner
- Barry Jacobs, Orange County Commissioner
- Richard Linville, Forsyth County Chairman of the Board
- Roger Lucas, Wilson County Commissioner
- Linda Massey, Alamance County Commissioner
- Jarvis McLamb, Sampson County Vice Chair
- Thomas Melton, N.C. Cooperative Extension Services Associate Director
- Charles Messer, Henderson County Commissioner
- Julius Owens, Rutherford County Chairman of the Board
- F.D. Rivenbark, Pender County Commissioner
- Gordon Wilder, Vance County Commissioner
- Robert Wisecarver, Davie County Vice Chair
- David Wood, Cherokee County Vice Chair
Recent reports
PowerPoints, handouts and materials from Jan. 24, 2012, meeting:
Oct. 27, 2011, meeting: Meeting minutes | PowerPoint presentations
Aspiring farmers take root at county incubator farm (September 2011)
Prospective farmers who find the cost of land and equipment too prohibitive to start a farm may have help on the way. Leaders of a new collaboration spearheaded by the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) at N.C. State will soon be seeking local government partners that are willing to transition vacant public lands to use as community-based, community-driven incubator farms.
N.C. helps shape new food safety law (March 2011)
Thanks in part to a strong message sent from a handful of western North Carolina counties – Jackson, Macon and Polk, in particular – and the response from Tar Heel Senators Richard Burr and Kay Hagan, the federal Food Safety Modernization Act signed into law by President Obama in early 2011 wasn't the end to the small family farm that many thought it would be.
Farm to cork (June 2010)
Homegrown wineries have a hard-earned place in North Carolina's agricultural sector
Orange feeds county's hunger for local foods (March 2010)
A new farm enterprise incubator initiative in Orange County is trying to grow the farming community and keep pace with a budding demand for locally grown foods, members of the NCACC Agriculture Steering Committee learned during their Feb. 10 meeting in Raleigh.
Water regulation a fluid, yet sticky matter (December 2009)
Budgeting and permitting of state's water resources needed, expert says, but opposition will make for tough passage in General Assembly
Ag Committee members see need for 'Farming 101' courses (February 2009)
The pool of skilled farm labor has dwindled to the point that high schools and community colleges need to include introductory courses to farming, according to members of the NCACC Agriculture Steering Committee, which met Jan. 23 in Raleigh.
Land of opportunity (May 2007)
Farmers don’t have to dig far to find future crop needs, according to experts at agricultural forum
Bond referendums top November wish lists (June 2006)
Groups advocating for transportation, rural water and land conservation needs are each seeking $1 billion in state bond money over the next five years. And all three groups – along with the executive director of the N.C. School Boards Association – appealed to the Association for support during a joint meeting May 18 of the Agriculture, Environment, and Taxation and Finance steering committees.
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