Updates to the economic criteria spreadsheet

[Hodg...@epamail.epa.gov]

Hello, economic criteria team.  I've returned to the office and various crises and am catching up, but Eric is coping with serious family health issues and must de-emphasize the national sustainable ag standard work for now.  

Attached is a version of the economic criteria table that attempts to address Jesse's comments from July, the latest I've seen.  

In preparation for the quarterly Standards Committee call, which I understand is this coming Thursday, could you please send me any edits or progress you have made by COB Monday, 8/22? I will compile what I receive into one document as far as possible and redistribute it to you on Tuesday or early Wednesday.  

Please let me know if you would like to represent the Econ subcommittee on the SC call, especially if you are a member of the Standards Committee.  Otherwise I will try to be available to present our table and update the SC on our status.  Best,

Don

   
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[jesse.s...@mchsi.com]

Thank you for stepping in Don- I've been wondering where things stood and will have my edits to you by Monday.

Jesse

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[Jennifer Trucks]

Next Monday August 29^th. Thanks all. Jennifer

[Jennifer Trucks]

Please have your edits, rows or comments into Don by  (I meant) Monday August 22^nd.  Thanks Jennifer

 

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[Beginning Farmers]

Thanks for this Don.

I think it looks pretty good. My only question/suggestion at this point is whether value-added products are assumed to be included in 'count of marketing practices' or 'count of distinct products'. Might it be worthwhile to separate this out, or do you think it's accounted for within the current structure? I haven't been participating as actively as others because my dissertation has had to take priority for the time being, so I'm willing to defer to subcommittee consensus on this issue if it has been established.

Thanks again,
Taylor
 

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[Hodg...@epamail.epa.gov]

Hi, Taylor et al.,

I intended "count of distinct products" to capture value-added products
(jam from fruit, cheese from milk, etc.); examples for "count of
marketing practices" would be farm stand, CSA, farmers' market, local
aggregator/food hub, packer/distributor, large corporate buyer (or some
value-free label), etc. Does that clarify?

What's the dissertation on? All the best with that.

Don

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Thanks again,
Taylor

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[jesse.s...@mchsi.com]

Hi Don-

I reviewed the spreadsheet and have no further changes to recommend. I think you captured the discussion we had during the last call and that the points I had concerns about have been addressed.

Thanks for your work.

Jesse
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Subject: Updates to the economic criteria spreadsheet

Hello, economic criteria team. I've returned to the office and various crises and am catching up, but Eric is coping with serious family health issues and must de-emphasize the national sustainable ag standard work for now.

Attached is a version of the economic criteria table that attempts to address Jesse's comments from July, the latest I've seen.

In preparation for the quarterly Standards Committee call, which I understand is this coming Thursday, could you please send me any edits or progress you have made by COB Monday, 8/22 ? I will compile what I receive into one document as far as possible and redistribute it to you on Tuesday or early Wednesday.

Please let me know if you would like to represent the Econ subcommittee on the SC call, especially if you are a member of the Standards Committee. Otherwise I will try to be available to present our table and update the SC on our status. Best,

Don

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Region 9 | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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(415) 972-3240 | hodg...@epa.gov

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[Ryan Rivard]

Hey Don...all, 

Sorry I have not gotten back sooner.  Some things again that I think would be important are: land lease terms to be longer than at least 3 years but maybe in the 4-5yr range, this provides incentives for the farm tenant to share the interest in the farming and reassure the farmer that they will benefit from longer term sustainability development to land, if for instance they transition to organic which takes 3 years. 

Maybe also in the investment lease terms we could provide easier avenues for the farm tenants to purchase the land at the end of the term if the farm is going to be sold to some other party to ensure that the farm stays sustainable, like offering a right-of-first-refsual to farm tenants. 

Lastly, although there should be some agreed farming practices included in the lease, this may be more difficult to implement a sustainability threshold practice per se.  So some options could be the use of non-gmo seeds which cannot germinate after one rotation and thus are not sustainable, and maybe limited uses of pesticide/herbicide, but maybe provide incentives to the farmers for cost sharing to implement such practices so that the farmer isn't bearing the entire cost/risk, etc.

Additionally, there is an individual that may have some interesting input on topics/criteria such as ecosystem service market participation.  His name is  Jay Truty and he is the president of Ecosystem Capital, LLC, which focuses on exactly this... I will be contacting him this week for some further info.

Thanks all.

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[Hodg...@epamail.epa.gov]

Ryan, Taylor, et al.,

I inserted a row 33 into the spreadsheet to capture the ownership succession criterion and I specified the recommended minimum lease term in row 30.  I tried to capture capture your third point in row 35 on good agricultural practices.   I also edited the indicator descriptions in rows 17 and 19 to address Taylor's comment.  

I hope that will do for the Thursday meeting.  I expect we'll have further opportunities to discuss and revise.  Thanks for taking the time to review and comment.  Regards,

Don


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  Don Hodge  |  Agriculture Program
  Region 9  |  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  75 Hawthorne Street  (AIR-6)  |  San Francisco, CA 94105
  (415) 972-3240  |  hodg...@epa.gov

[jesse.s...@mchsi.com]

Thank you for your work Don! Really appreciate it.

Jesse
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[Ryan Rivard]

Thanks Don.

[Ryan Rivard]

So is the meeting tomorrow at noon?

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:08 AM, <Hodg...@epamail.epa.gov> wrote:

[Jennifer Trucks]

11-1pm Central

[Ryan Rivard]

Hello Jennifer,

Was there a previous link sent out for the online meeting today?  I cannot seem to find one.

Thanks