2017 Draft Session Topic List
- Ag Tourism, Rural tourism, boutique travel
- Roads (funding, implements of husbandry) sustainability on road infrastructure -
- Animal Issues, Animal Health Issues (antibiotics, Delmarva’s Good Neighbor Policy )
- Water Quality Issues, Nutrient Runoff , Dead Zone, Disappearing wetlands, Manure work as identified by Carleton, Water Quality Technology, erosion control, how to pay for conservation, Hypoxia Dead Zone
- Food safety Changes needed to state Laws for FSMA
- Food Deserts
- Helping small communities thrive, maybe combine with 8- 9
- Rural Technology Challenges, Broadband - maybe combine with 9
- Access to health services , Physician & healthcare professional shortage in rural areas, solutions
- Trade
- Endangered Species and Invasive Species
- Casino/Racinos
- Rural Prisons, justice reform/county jails
- State Efforts to take back control/ownership of federal lands, lessons learned in federal standoffs
- FFA and 4H, Ag Education, Veterans into ag, Beginning farmers programs combine with 18
- Truths and myths, jihad training in rural America
- Bio or eco terrorism, do we need to be concerned
- Loss of Ag Workers – field, technology, young farmers
- Wolf Management, Predator Management
- Out of control population growth and urbanization
- Post election future/analysis, What to expect with new admin, RFS , trade
- Market Development put with trade
- Trade in Forestry sector
- Pollinator Health (state pollinator programs) - combine with? Ag tourism,
- Fish Farming, Aquaculture, land based aquaculture
- Species Breakouts –all
- USDA financial help
- Overcoming joblessness in rural America, Immigration, Labor, career, seasonal migrant, domestic, DOL issues with Farm Labor with 18
- Food Labeling / with food safety
- Work with coal and oil industry,
- Renewable Energy
- Robotics, Drones, Ag Data, Big Data
- Marijuana / Hemp legislation
- Fresh Produce industry – food safety FSMA food deserts
- Industry Sustainability efforts, State Sustainability efforts
- Property Taxes - lids - use valuation
- What other states are doing
- Hard core partisan and ideological walls
- Additional Panels on topics that hit all states
- Pending litigation, Regulatory Issues, How federal laws impact states, legal issues- Sunday morning
- Topics for collaboration between US and Canada - policy session
- Importance of Food to America’s National Security combine for Saturday, collaboration, with Canada