By Rebecca Sananes • May 18, 2017 What happens to the Vermont dairy industry if migrant workers are deported? That was the question being answered at a community forum in Hardwick on Wednesday night. It’s complicated – that’s one of the big takeaways to come out of Wednesday’s forum at the Hazen School Library about Continue Reading
By Rebecca Sananes • May 18, 2017 What happens to the Vermont dairy industry if migrant workers are deported? That was the question being answered at a community forum in Hardwick on Wednesday night. It’s complicated – that’s one of the big takeaways to come out of Wednesday’s forum at the Hazen School Library about Continue Reading
By JIM SUHR Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits will go to trial on Monday in Kansas against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its decision to introduce a genetically engineered corn seed variety to the U.S. market before China approved it for imports. The lawsuits allege Syngenta’s Continue Reading
By Debbie Weingarten | HEALTH, Young Farmers Unite 05.04.17 Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect the fact that the U.S. House of Representatives on May 4 narrowly passed a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the spring of 2015, Kathryn Skelley-Watts took a break from planting crops Continue Reading
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May 4, 2017 by Emily Monaco The country’s largest organic milk producer has allegedly been operating illegally, according to an exposé that appeared in the Washington Post Monday. Aurora Organic Dairy, which supplies store-brand organic milk to such retailers as Walmart, Costco, and Target, was accused in the exposé of failing to graze its cattle Continue Reading
May. 16, 2017 by Mike Polhamus Legislators have backed down from a proposal to make farms’ plans to control their pollution exempt from Vermont’s public records laws. Instead of making a decision, lawmakers passed a bill late last week that will establish a group to study whether the documents should be exempt from public disclosure. Continue Reading
May. 9, 2017 by Mike Polhamus Legislators appear poised to adopt a bill that proponents say will give much-needed economic stimulus to Vermont’s rural economies. Titled S.34, the wide-ranging bill seeks to support Vermont’s forestry, agriculture and renewable energy industries through a variety of measures. Versions of the bill passed both the House and Senate, Continue Reading
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May. 9, 2017, 8:59 pm by Mike Polhamus Environmental advocates say farmers who receive public subsidies would be shielded from public oversight under a bill that has the support of the state’s Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.The legislation, H.495, would exempt farmers’ nutrient management plans from disclosure to the public. The bill has passed Continue Reading
