MFU & MCA Joint Mid-Year Meeting
June 14-15, 2012 – Red Lion Inn, Kalispell
Thursday, June 14, 2012
8:00 – 10:00 AM MFU Board Meeting
10:00 – evening Tours – via chartered bus
- Kalispell Kreamery
- Jess Peterson, U.S. Cattlemen’s, speaks on the bus
LUNCH - MCA Speaker —
- Stoltz Lumber, Forestry Experiment Project, Kalispell
- Aqua Algae, Columbia Falls
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DINNER - Dinner in Columbia Falls
- Visit Farmers Market
- Back to Kalispell via bus
Friday, June 15, 2012
8:30 – 9:00 AM Registration
9:00 – 9:15 AM Adam deYong, MT Dept. of Labor
Welcome Remarks
9:15 – 10:00 AM Mark Schiltz, Western Manager, Montana Land Reliance
Farm & Ranch Land Management Planning/Easements
Lindsay Warshaw, Land Link
Beginning Farmer/Rancher Matches: Challenges & Opportunities
10:00 – 11:00 AM Chandler Goule, NFU VP for Government Affairs
Farm Bill Update
11:00 – Noon Bill Patrie, Executive Director, Common Enterprise Development Corp.,
Innovative cooperative businesses
12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch
Tess Brown, RI Farmers Union, Urban farming
1:30 – 2:30 PM Noxious Weeds/Invasive Species of the Region
2:30 – 3:30 PM Bill Patrie, Cooperative Opportunities: Next Steps & Discovering the
Possibilities
Special thanks to Mission Mountain Food Enterprise and Cooperative Development Center, a
division of Lake County Community Development, for speaker sponsorship and coordination
CURRENT OFFICERS
President: Mark Boone (406) 354-6641
Vice President:John Cosgriff (406) 932-4104
Secretary: Jesse Wallewein (406) 937-2775
Treasurer: Kim Baker (406) 741-3680
Executive Secretary:Caley Clark (406) 741-2248
Officers are elected to two-year terms by the statewide membership
President- Mark Boone
Vice president- John Cosgriff
Secretary- Jesse Wallewein
Treasurer & Past President - Kim Baker
Executive Secretary - Caley Clark