{"id":1553,"date":"2022-05-25T17:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T21:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2022-05-25T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T21:03:59","slug":"uvm-extension-puerto-rico-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/uvm-extension-puerto-rico-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"UVM Extension &amp; Puerto Rico Farm Business Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1554\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/05\/extension-puerto-rico.jpg?resize=525%2C276\" alt=\"A group of people sitting around a table in discussing agricultural business practices in Puerto Rico.\" width=\"525\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/05\/extension-puerto-rico.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/05\/extension-puerto-rico.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/05\/extension-puerto-rico.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UVM Extension <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/agriculture\/agriculture_business_management\">Agricultural Business<\/a> team members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/profiles\/mark_cannella\">Mark Cannella<\/a> and Zac Smith developed new partners and found common ground in the issues and opportunities facing farm owners and farm viability in Puerto Rico.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Working closely with University or Puerto Rico Utuado and Technoserve, two half-day seminars were offered attended by college students and farm owners in late April, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?page_id=2312\">Click here for outreach teaching materials<\/a> posted on the UVM Ag Business blog.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1555\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/05\/ag-business-puerto-rico.jpg?resize=525%2C276\" alt=\"A class is learning about agricultural business.\" width=\"525\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/05\/ag-business-puerto-rico.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/05\/ag-business-puerto-rico.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/files\/2022\/05\/ag-business-puerto-rico.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UVM Extension Agricultural Business team members Mark Cannella and Zac Smith developed new partners and found common ground in the issues and opportunities facing farm owners and farm viability in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,53,29],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ext","category-programs","category-staff","tag-ag-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1764,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/uvm-u-puerto-rico-mayaguez-food-resilience\/","url_meta":{"origin":1553,"position":0},"title":"UVM &amp; University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Foster Food Resilience","author":"CALS Communications","date":"July 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"From July 11 to 15, 2022, a team of faculty, graduate students and community partners from University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (UPRM) visited Vermont, and participated in a series of tours and a workshop to explore food resilience in the two regions. 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