In Vermont, many dairy farmers don’t seem immediately concerned about losing their workforce. But farmworker organizers say they’re worried about increased immigration enforcement worsening poor ...
The Vermont Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) just opened an ACT NOW fund pool, which provides payments to farmers ...
Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Last week, at the University of Vermont dairy farm in South Burlington, Jess Waterman climbed up to an opening in a large storage tank, inserted a long metal dipper ...
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - The country is on high alert ... the state started sampling on Thursday. Every farm producing Grade A dairy -- that means milk approved for sale over state lines ...
Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets The application for the Value-Added Producer Grants (VAPGs) is now available. The ...
While Billings welcomes many visitors throughout the year, the venue is, first and foremost, a functional farm, according to ...
It will be the inaugural contractor to sign on. Co-founder David Richards said he expects this to impact several hundred — ...
Beginning Jan. 3, VAAFM employees will sample unpasteurized milk on all Grade A milk producing farms in Vermont each month. The samples will be tested in a lab for the HPAI strain that has infected ...
and Vermont, as well as Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Dairy farmers as well as technical service providers, producer ...
She left Mexico more than a decade ago to work on Vermont dairy farms. Lupita lives in a house among a quilt of rolling farm fields. On a recent weekday, she fried plantains and heated up the ...