The tire slicer belongs to the state’s mosquito program, and it will turn out up to 1,500 free sidewalls for dairy farms in Barre this month.

When Diane Wyatt bought a family cow in 1998, she thought it would be just that – for the family. But home cheesemaking turned to yogurt making, one cow turned into two, and by 2009, the family had built a processing plant and was selling Sweet Cow Yogurt at markets around Vermont.

….And there was a tomato ranked second largest in the world. All on display at Sam Mazza’s Farm Market.

U.S. farmers face record-high fuel expenses this year as the fall harvest kicks into gear while pressure grows on the Trump administration to impose a temporary ban on diesel exports that could bring down prices.

Thousands flock to Bennington for a (slightly smelly) festival.

Fourteen cases of salmonella illness in Vermont have been linked to eggs produced at a Windsor County farm, prompting a recall covering more than three months of production.

“This is not a free market failure. This is policy failure,” said Elizabeth Brown, the foundation’s Vermont state director.

Independent growers want a way to sell their product directly to consumers.

They’re bumblebee yellow, about the size of a ride-on mower, and since May they’ve been humming up and down crop rows on farms in northern Vermont with nobody driving them.

Vermont dairy closing under fire

Vermont will receive about 915,000 eggs – that’s 76,500 dozen – and $56,000 under a multistate settlement with three of the nation’s largest egg producers accused of illegally conspiring to inflate egg prices, Attorney General Charity Clark announced Tuesday.

The hunch that the sharpest cheddars don’t bite the way they used to is everywhere in Vermont. The science says the answer is more complicated than “they ruined it” — and partly about you.

Forty-two judges, 1,600 entries, 139 categories. By Friday, Vermont finds out whether it repeats last year’s 49-ribbon haul.

Nearly half of New England’s dairy farms are in Vermont.

Members of the FSA state committee are appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and, in support of the Trump Administration’s Farmers First commitment, members of the FSA state committee are responsible for the oversight of farm programs and county committee operations, resolving program delivery appeals from the agriculture community, maintaining cooperative relations with industry stakeholders and keeping producers informed about current FSA programs.   

It may be home to Ben & Jerry’s Factory Store, but Waterbury’s last three dairy farms were driven out of business. Their former owners struggle to let go.

Scheduled to participate are the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, NOFA-VT, the Vermont Farm Bureau, Migrant Justice, the Vermont Foodbank, and the Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast.

Vermont’s Extension Maple Program has been awarded a grant from the Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships to prevent farmers from misrepresenting the grade of their maple syrup.

Terroir (natural environment) is a cornerstone of the wine world. A growing number of farmers and chefs argue it’s just as crucial for raising meat, and Vermont is seen as ideal.

Not surprisingly, concentration of foreign ownership is highest in Vermont’s three largest agriculture producers, Franklin, Orleans, and Addison counties.

The state’s agriculture industries are paying close attention to prices on products they use.

About half the shares of Calabash Gardens are owned by family and friends, and 39% are owned by people of color.

The committee hasn’t decided – yet – to recommend extending the state minimum wage to illegal immigrant farm workers as well.

Raised in rural Texas and involved in small-scale cow husbandry, Rollins’ 15 years as president of the conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation blends farming grit with a proven track record of professional management.