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Limiting Factors

Limiting Factors. Jay Gordon Washington State Dairy Federation. Barriers on the Landscape. Globalization of Agriculture The Agriculture Industry is a Misnomer Getting to Partnerships that Keep Farms AND Wildlife Healthy. Understanding The pressure on Ag… Globalization. Loss of Processors

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Limiting Factors

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  1. Limiting Factors Jay Gordon Washington State Dairy Federation

  2. Barriers on the Landscape • Globalization of Agriculture • The Agriculture Industry is a Misnomer • Getting to Partnerships that Keep Farms AND Wildlife Healthy

  3. Understanding The pressure on Ag… Globalization. • Loss of Processors • Loss of farmers in Western Washington • Pressure on Existing Farms • Low income • Age of farmers • Development Keeping Farms will be a challenge!!

  4. Farmers are Not a Gregarious Specie • Independent, Stubborn & Determined • Circle the Wagons and Shoot In • Differences in TFW and AFW • Collaborators Conspire • So How Do We Keep Farmers and Wildlife?

  5. Trusting Relationships That Work… • First is Trust • We choose to keep farmland • Understand…then Seek to be Understood! • Solutions • CD’s & the Chehalis. • The Nooksack & The Skykomish Area. • The Tribes, Farmers, Family Foresters and Fishermen are wedded to the land. • Sammish Chinook and Delta Potatoes.

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