About the DLLC
One Of A Kind
DLLC brings together representatives from chicken companies, farmers, regulatory agencies, academia, and environmental groups in a collaborative and mission-driven manner.
Our mission is to be a forum for diverse partners to identify solutions that support both healthy and productive ecosystems and farming and poultry on Delmarva.
Our vision is that farming and poultry production on Delmarva are economically viable, environmentally sound and can serve as a national model.
Diverse Partners
The DLLC Steering Committee consists of 30 members who are leaders in their field and represent farmers, environmental groups, poultry companies, agricultural business and trade groups, academics and government agencies. All stakeholders who embrace the DLLC mission are invited to join in this grand collaboration.
Our Process
DLLC is a voluntary, self-directed collaborative of individuals and organizations directed and controlled by its Steering Committee. Solutions from the Land (SfL), a 501 (c) (3) organization focused on land-based solutions for global challenges, functions as the fiduciary agent and legal host of the DLLC. Staffing is provided by Green Fin Studio, an external, neutral group funded by The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment to provide backbone support for DLLC. Additional funding to support specific products and Steering Committee meetings comes from the DLLC members and stakeholders who support the mission.
DLLC has a 30-member Steering Committee that meets quarterly. Seven of those members volunteer to serve on our Executive Committee, which meets monthly and oversees the operations of DLLC. The Chair of our Steering Committee rotates each year between a member of the agricultural community and a member of the environmental community. The Steering Committee members participate in workgroups and committees and meet often to ensure that their annual work plans are implemented. In between these meetings, staff and members maintain communication through email and shared documents.
To provide structure and consistency for the organization, the Executive Committee relies on the Governance and Operating Procedure and Principles document. If a circumstance arises that is not covered in the document, the Executive Committee will make a recommendation to the Steering Committee, who votes by consensus. The value of this structure is that any product or statement that comes from DLLC has gone through a rigorous collaborative process that ensures that our diverse membership has provided input and approval.
Leadership
Chair
The Chair, Kristen Hughes Evans, founded Sustainable Chesapeake in 2012 to serve as a bridge between farmers and the environmental community. She works with stakeholders throughout the Chesapeake Bay region to bring innovative technologies and conservation practices to farms that support farm profit and production goals while reducing the loss of nitrogen and phosphorus to surface waters.
Vice Chair
Our Vice Chair, Kurt Fuchs is the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for MidAtlantic Farm Credit (MAFC). In his role, he provides leadership and mentoring in MAFC’s legislative and public affairs programs, coordinates association participation in various state and federal programs, and works with senior management in development of new programs.goals while reducing the loss of nitrogen and phosphorus to surface waters.
Executive Committee
Kristen Hughes Evans
Executive Director, Sustainable Chesapeake
Bob Frazee
(Retired) CEO, MidAtlantic Farm Credit, ACA
Kurt Fuchs
Senior VP of Government Affairs, MidAtlantic Farm Credit
Alan Girard
Eastern Shore Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Sarah Harrison Linton
Temperanceville Complex Environmental Manager, Tyson Foods
Holly Porter
Executive Director, Delmarva Chicken Association
Josh Hastings
Program and Policy Director, Forever Maryland
Steering Committee
David Baird
District Coordinator, Sussex Conservation District
Chris Bason
Executive Director, Delaware Center for the Inland Bays
Danielle Bauer Farace
Executive Director, Delaware and Maryland Soybean Boards
Kevin Cline (Non-voting advisory member)
Environmental Specialist, Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality
Kim Coble
Executive Director, Maryland League of Conservation Voters
Robert J. Etgen
Executive Director, Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
Kristen Hughes Evans
Executive Director, Sustainable Chesapeake
Bob Frazee
(Retired) CEO, MidAtlantic Farm Credit, ACA
Kate Fritz
Executive Director, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Kurt Fuchs
Senior VP of Government Affairs, MidAtlantic Farm Credit
Bob Gallagher
(Former) West/Rhode Riverkeeper
Alan Girard
Eastern Shore Director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Josh Hastings
Program and Policy Director, Forever Maryland Foundation
Mark Hoffman
Maryland Director, Chesapeake Bay Commission
Bobby Hutchison
Grain Farmer, Hutchison Brothers
Amy Jacobs
Watershed Restoration Director, The Nature Conservancy
Mike Levengood
Vice President, Chief Animal Care Officer and Farmer Relations Advocate, Perdue
Sarah Harrison Linton
Temperanceville Complex Environmental Manager, Tyson Foods
Dave Lovell
Poultry Farmer, Old Mill Farms
Bill Massey
VP of Live Operations, Mountaire Farms
Andrew L. McLean
Poultry Farmer, Relief Farm
Nancy Nunn
Assistant Director, Harry R. Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology
Holly Porter
Executive Director, Delmarva Chicken Association
Jennifer Rhodes
Senior Agent, University of Maryland Extension
Tim Rosen
Director of Agriculture & Restoration, ShoreRivers
Kelly Shenk (Non-voting advisory member)
Agricultural Advisor, EPA Region III
Richard Snyder
Director, Eastern Shore Laboratory, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Nick Thomas
Poultry and Grain Farmer, Thomas Family Farms
Lindsay Thompson
Executive Director, Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board
Lisa Wool
Executive Director, Nanticoke Watershed Alliance