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Hires New CEO
VENTURA (Dec. 18, 2007) — Veteran journalist, author and policy analyst John Krist has been named chief executive officer of the Farm Bureau of Ventura County, Board President Scott Deardorff announced today.
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The Farm Team is Here for Bureau Members
Recognizing that agriculture must take a lead role in influencing public
policy and the resulting business climate, California Farm Bureau
Federation (CFBF) has created a grass-roots mobilization program to
ensure that agriculture’s voice is heard. Click here* to view and download
a pdf file with more information!
Conditional AG Waiver Presentation
A pdf file of the Conditional Ag Waiver PowerPoint presentation by Tess
Dunham is available for viewing and downloading by clicking here.*
A copy of the story about ag waivers written by John Krist of the Ventura
County Staris also available for viewing and download by clicking here.*
AG Futures Alliance Stewardship Paper
Growers and others concerned about agriculture’s survival formed
a coalition named the Ag Futures Alliance (AFA) in late 1999 to address
some of the more critical challenges facing farming in Ventura County.
The initial purpose of AFA was to create a framework for actions to ensure
that agriculture would remain a vibrant and vital element of the Ventura
County landscape, culture and economy in perpetuity.
Recognizing a need for broad-based public commitment and participation,
members of AFA agreed that Ventura County agriculture must make the
environmental and health concerns of non-farming residents a top priority.
The alliance invited representatives from a variety of social and
environmental concerns to participate, and with few exceptions the offer
was accepted.
It became clear to AFA participants that the first step must be to create
meaningful two-way communication. The second step would be to build
trust, and the third step would be to discover win-win solutions based on
mutual respect and appreciation. It was during this third phase that AFA
formed a subcommittee on stewardship, charging it with developing a set
of principles and practices to guide farmers so they could conduct
business without damaging the local environment.
Participants soon realized that if the principles and practices of
stewardship were to be meaningful and effective, they had to be
expanded to address the roles and obligations of other important
components of the community, specifically consumers and policy
makers. The document, the product of more than a year of work by
the subcommittee and countless revisions by the entire AFA membership,
reflects consensus by the members of the AFA roundtable on a new ethic
of stewardship intended to guide interactions among everyone with
a stake in local agriculture’s future.
We encourage you to download a pdf file of the document by clicking here.*
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