Shawn Gingue checking on this season s wheat crop at NEK Grains Shawn grew up doing chores on the family farm. He always thought he d be a dairyman like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, whom he called Grandpère. He s lived in Waterford for all of his 40 years except the seven when he and one of his brothers ran their own dairy in Fairfax. In 2014, the brothers returned to the home farm to invest and modernize, Shawn said. But the milk price was just not going to support that. It was a tough decision to sell the herd, but the reprieve from nonstop chores and price pressure gave me space to think, he said.
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Burlington University of Vermont (UVM) Extension recently received a $68,438 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture s Natural Resources Conservation Service to work with farmers interested in trying solar corridors in their corn silage fields.
The project will be led by Dr. Heather Darby, a UVM Extension agronomist based in St. Albans and head of the UVM Extension Northwest Crops and Soils Team. Over the past decade, the team has worked with farmers to adopt cover cropping projects across the state. This new research project will further enhance the conservation benefits of cover crops on Vermont farms.
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VIRTUAL EVENT: The Industrial Hemp Conference will be held virtually from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 26. The Feb. 26 event will be held virtually and will feature speakers from across the country.
Feb 05, 2021
A keynote talk by a leading U.S. cannabinoid researcher is among the highlights of the third annual Industrial Hemp Conference on Feb. 26.
Dr. John McPartland, a Middlebury osteopathic physician and consultant for GW Pharmaceuticals, will describe the challenges he s faced when working with cannabis. His presentation kicks off the conference, a virtual event that will run from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and will feature researchers and industry experts from Vermont, Kentucky, North Carolina, Colorado and several other states.