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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Important! New USDA program payment available for specialty crop farms. Deadline Jan 8
Passing this on from our Cornell colleague Liz Higgins. -TB I am emailing this directly to our entire program email list because we just learned about a new USDA FSA payment program for specialty crop farms to help offset their high costs of labor and inputs. I had this in my newsletter a couple of…
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Webinar Series on Farm Succession and Transfer Starting January 9th
Live Webinar Series on Farm Succession and Transfer starting January 9th 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 ahead long-term, particularly planning for…
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Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Grant — Details Soon!
Passing this in from the Agency of Agriculture. -TB Hello, The Agency of Agriculture is excited to announce that the Resilient Food System Infrastructure (RFSI) grant details will be released very soon! We’re reaching out to partners, TA providers, and those who supported our stakeholder engagement to offer a “heads up” that the RFA will…
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Free Farm Succession and Transfer Webinar Series
The “Farm Succession Planning Webinar Series” is for farmers to learn about key issues, tools and resources to help them make informed decisions and take action steps towards transferring their farm to the next generation of their family or a non-family successor. Farmers will learn from professionals who can help in the process and from…
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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…