The latest happenings from the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Kelly Hamshaw was interviewed by Vermont Public and Seven Days about the impacts of the recent Vermont floods on mobile home parks.
UVM Extension’s Heather Darby and Vern Grubinger were quoted in a Newport Daily Express article about managing flooded produce, crops, and pastures. Continue reading “CALS in the News-July 2023”
The UVM Morgan Horse Farm’s Vermont Day is just around the corner! Join them on Saturday, August 5, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for their signature annual open house event. This wonderful event features demonstrations of the Morgan horse’s versatility, utility, and training progression. The farm is located at 74 Battell Drive in Weybridge, VT. Continue reading “August 5 is Morgan Horse Farm Vermont Day”
The International Workshop on Agritourism (IWA) 2022 Conference Proceedings is now available online. The publication is intended to increase access to the scholarship that was shared during the three-day conference, which was hosted by UVM Extension in Burlington, VT, on August 30 to September 1, 2022.
Click this link to download the 2022 conference proceedings in PDF format.
Continue reading “2022 Agritourism Conference Proceedings Available Online”
On a blustery afternoon in June, agriculture and forestry technical advisors including USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) and UVM Extension met to observe and discuss healthy trees on a parcel of Vermont clay plain forest in Shelburne. Following several online meetings to discuss tree health in Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry (CSAF) Mitigation Activities, this gathering was the first time many of the professionals had met in person. Continue reading “Climate Learning Forum: Healthy Trees Gathering in Vermont”
During the summer of 2023, the Vermont Dairy Mapping Project launched with a team that visited several dairy farms to interview farmers about their disease-prevention biosecurity practices. The project team collected information that will be used to prepare a disease outbreak response plan for each farm, based on the national Secure Milk Supply Plan template. The team also “field tested” a new online mapping application that was developed to make the visual mapping part of a plan easier to create. Continue reading “VT Dairy Mapping Project Kicks Off at UVM Dairy Farm”