Category: Business Development
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VT Veg and Berry Growers PYO website promotion
Julie Callahan from the UVM Vegetable and Berry Team reached out to offer this opportunity to advertise your farms on their website. -TB VVBGA Pick Your Own website- Please create or update your listing! Last year, 723 people visited the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Growers Association Pick Your Own website with almost 2,000 views of…
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2025 Agriculture Drought Impact Survey closes on 12/15
Passing this on from the VT Agency of Agriculture. -TB We have less than one month to collect survey responses to the Agriculture Drought Impact Survey. Please encourage the Vermont agricultural community to complete and submit a response to the survey with their impacts before the survey closes on December 15, 2025. We have 168…
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Live Webinar Series on Farm Succession and Transfer starting January 8th
Live Webinar Series on Farm Succession and Transfer starting January 8th Mike Ghia, VT Farm Viability Program What is the future of your farm? If you are like most farmers, you are so busy with the day-to-day business of farming you find it difficult to take the time to plan long-term, particularly planning for a…
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2025 UVM Extension Spring Orchard Twilight Meetings May 8 and 9
Join the University of Vermont Extension and Vermont Tree Fruit Grower’s Association at these hands-on field meetings at Yates Family Orchard in Monkton on May 8th and Wellwood Orchard in Springfield on May 9th from 4:30-6 p.m. We will discuss commercial tree fruit management practices, value added products, marketing, pest and disease updates, pollinators, and…
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Vermont Apple Industry Survey
My graduate student, Eli Wilson, is conducting a survey to assess the status of orchard planting systems and farm diversification among Vermont apple producers. This is the same survey that was done in real-time at the 2/21 Middlebury meeting. If you took it there, please ignore. -TB https://go.uvm.edu/25orchardsurvey Good afternoon. The UVM Fruit Program is…
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USDA Value Added Producer Grants Information Sessions
By Terence Bradshaw Hello: The USDA Value Added Producers Grants Program is now open for FY2020. This is a great program available to growers and businesses aimed at helping to scale up or investigate entering the value-added food, fiber, and wood products industries. I have reviewed these grants in the past, and this is an…
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Introduction to (Commercial) Hard Cider
June 3, 2014 I just wanted to drop a quick note to announce that an article I co-authored with other cider-oriented researchers has been posted to eXtension: http://www.extension.org/pages/70601/an-introduction-to-hard-cider-in-the-us#.U4fbrBbp-DQ This should be just the beginning of things to come. Terence Bradshaw, UVM Tree Fruit and Viticulture Specialist Where trade names or commercial products are used for…
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Diversified fruit and veg farm crop insurance: Please read
April 6, 2014 Terence Bradshaw, UVM Tree Fruit and Viticulture Specialist PLEASE consider spending a couple of minutes of your time for this. Ag research only works when its beneficiaries, i.e., farmers, participate. –Thanks, Terry Jen Miller, a grad student at UVM, is doing a survey examining crop insurance on diversified fruit and vegetable farms…
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Courses for instruction on Diversified Farm Management at UVM Summer 2014
March 18, 2014- This series includes my course on Sustainable Orchard and Vineyard Management. -TB UVM Educational Farm Expands Learning Opportunities for Students Catamount Farm to provide dynamic environment for wide range of students By Erica Houskeeper A new farming education endeavor at the University of Vermont will give students the opportunity to learn about…