How Conference Results Will be Used

The findings and feedback from the Focus on Farming Conference will guide the development of a Snohomish County Agriculture Action Plan that will be implemented in 2005. The plan will be a practical, bottom-line oriented economic development blueprint for agriculture. It will address four basic categories of action:

• Economic Development
• Regulatory
• Outreach/Education
• Cultural/Heritage

The farming community will be involved in the development of this plan. However, our intention is not to conduct an extended planning process, but to get busy implementing well-informed, well-targeted actions that have both immediate and long-term benefits for the County’s farming community.