Limiting Factors

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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
• Understandthen Seek to be Understood!
• Solutions
• CDs the Chehalis.
• The Nooksack The Skykomish Area.
• The Tribes, Farmers, Family Foresters and
  Fishermen are wedded to the land.
• Sammish Chinook and Delta Potatoes.