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SCENARIO ONE: Natural Resources and Climate Change

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SCENARIO ONE: Natural Resources and Climate Change

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CEDS goal: Accomplish 50 new farm businesses/jobs, increase net income to farmers by 10%, expand acres under production by 5,000 and increase value added production. By 2023, increase marine-related employment by 250 jobs through expansion of research, harvest, and processing.

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By the end of 2023, effects from climate change, which have been increasingly more disruptive over the last five years, began to significantly impact the lives and careers of those in northern and Downeast Maine. Aroostook County had just experienced the driest summer on record, easily surpassing the previous record.

In the beginning of that year, the federal government worked to increase carbon pricing nationwide to encourage forest carbon projects. The state government in Maine created a program to increase the state’s percentage of forested land from 89% to 92.3% by 2030 and included generous incentives for landholders to reforest or delay some forestry projects.

The Gulf of Maine continued to be one of the fastest warming bodies of water on the planet, and average temperatures increased by almost 0.5 degrees from 2021 to 2023. Ironically, the drastic cold snap of early November 2023 caused a record 1,545 sea turtles to wash up on the beach, unable to escape the rapid water cooling. This brought national attention to the record warming in the Gulf of Maine, and additional government funding to identify ways to adapt to these changes. Local aquaculture companies welcome the additional interest and investment but are concerned that it may lead to even tighter restrictions on lobster and shellfish catch.

The wild blueberry fields of Down East Maine continue to warm faster than other areas in the state. So far, this small but important temperature difference has not resulted in the record droughts experienced in other parts of the state, but farmers in the area are beginning to increase mitigation efforts, including adding wood mulch to more of their fields and improving and expanding irrigation systems. Although the fields of Downeast Maine were warming, many other agricultural areas around the United States were experiencing even worse changes. California droughts and wildfires continued to bankrupt or otherwise displace major farming operations, and farms in the Midwest struggled through increasingly destructive summer storms and intermittent droughts. Some large agricultural conglomerates began looking at possible locations in Downeast Maine to move some corn production and in Aroostook County for soybean production.

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Memo - Adpative Planning Session 1 Key Findings - NMDC

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Memo - Stakeholder and Business Survey - NMDC Resiliency Strategy

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Natural Resources and Climate Change

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Connectivity and Digital Transformation

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Changing Workforce

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Energy Evolution

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Manufacturing and Supply Chain

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Continued education about utilizing migrant workforces when local workforce is unavailable

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Continued education about utilizing migrant workforces when local workforce is unavailable

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Decreased farmer revenue due to increased production costs and reduced yield.

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Developed techniques from UMaine implemented into practice. 

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Developed techniques from UMaine implemented into practice. 

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Increasing soil organic matter would drastically reduce the effects of climate change on agricultural production. Carbon sequestration is a more viable option than irrigation; plus, it is less expensive and less intrusive to our water resources.

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Expansion of state and usda investment in value added agricultural products could go away. 

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Expansion of state and usda investment in value added agricultural products could go away. 

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increase soil organic matter will improve the soil's water holding capacity and improve overall soil biota.

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Prepare for secession planning for an again agricultural work force. How will we transition existing farms/operations to the next generation? Prepare agencies to begin training to get this done smoother. 

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Prepare for secession planning for an again agricultural work force. How will we transition existing farms/operations to the next generation? Prepare agencies to begin training to get this done smoother. 

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Train agencies to assist with farm owner transitions and secession planning. 

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Train agencies to assist with farm owner transitions and secession planning. 

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Increasing acreage is fine if the market is increased as well. Growers have to receive prices that are above production costs in order to stay competitive. Canadian agricultural products are heavily subsidized and enter the US market at a very unfair advantage. Subsidies are not the answer, however.

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Work with National Resources Conservation Service, NRCS, to facilitate cultural practices necessary to implement soil health building practices. Government programs/agencies are very cumbersome to deal with, it can be frustrating. If you enter their office today, you are applying for assistance in the next calendar year.

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Government rules changing on food sovereignty

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Government rules changing on food sovereignty

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As our producers improve production practices that increase yields, and even value added products, foreign competitors will achieve the same increases. We have to have a level playing field. Congress must act to protect our growers first. This would alleviate some of the supply chain issues that we are currently facing.

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Promoting Aroostook and Washington County agricultural products on a national level.

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Who will do the work? Some of this will be manual labor. Migratory labor is not feasible for small producers. When I was a kid, many local people hoed sugar beets by hand. This would never happen today.

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beginning to see this now

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Window of opportunity to get market share while others lag in setting policy/reg.

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Related to food sovereignty, but is this a future trend in Maine that it is becoming easier to change State constitution?