Celebrating 67 Years of Across the Fence
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ASCI Students Accepted into Cornerstone Dairy Academy
UVM Animal and Veterinary Sciences students enrolled in Advanced Dairy Management at the W.H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute have successfully competed for acceptance into the Cornerstone Dairy Academy, offered through the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin. They will be attending a two-day conference in the Wisconsin Dells in during March, 2022. Continue reading “ASCI Students Accepted into Cornerstone Dairy Academy”
NECAFS Receives Funding for Produce Safety Research Consortium
UVM Extension’s Northeast Center to Advance Food Safety (NECAFS) has received a five-year, $1.38 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to establish a Northeast Produce Safety Research Consortium. Continue reading “NECAFS Receives Funding for Produce Safety Research Consortium”
January 2022 Across the Fence Highlights
Farm to Bakery: Vermont Research on Winter Rye
Migrant Farmworker Grant Builds Community Health Worker Capacity
Building on a decade of migrant farmworker health outreach by dedicated, committed and mostly part-time UVM Extension staff, the Vermont Department of Health awarded Principal Investigator Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland a $1,300,000 grant to ensure greater equity and access to COVID-19 vaccines for those disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Continue reading “Migrant Farmworker Grant Builds Community Health Worker Capacity”