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Posted on March 29, 2013
ATHOL, MA — In front of over 250 livestock farmers, processors, educators and consumers, Beverly (Adams) Mundell was awarded an inscribed meat cleaver and named as Processor of the Year at the Meat Ball on Friday, March 22. The standing ovation that Mundell received showed the respect of the livesto...
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Sanne Kure-Jensen 
Posted on March 29, 2013
John Spargo, UMass Extension soil scientist and director of the UMass Soil and Plant Tissue Testing Laboratory discussed Nitrogen (N) dynamics in organic cropping systems at the Agriculture & Food Conference of Southeastern Massachusetts. Spargo explained how to efficiently and effectively manage N ...
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Posted on March 29, 2013
The beef checkoff, through the Northeast Beef Promotion Initiative, was positively represented to over 250 New England packers, restaurant operators, retailers, producers, and meat cutters at the first ever New England Meat Conference held in Concord, NH on March 22-23. Honored as a Porterhouse spon...
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Sanne Kure-Jensen 
Posted on March 22, 2013
Sap from sugar maples has been boiled down into syrup since before colonial days. Each spring Vermont’s Shelburne Farms offers visitors a chance to experience this historic process, from selecting and tapping a tree to collecting and boiling sap into syrup. The sugarbush at Shelburne Farms is an out...
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George Looby, DVM 
Posted on March 22, 2013
The New England Dairy Conference changed venues for 2013 with the Tolland Agricultural Center in Vernon, CT playing host to this year’s event. On March 11, the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Animal Science and Cooperative Extension System presen...
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Sally Colby 
Posted on March 22, 2013
When the town of Brooksville, ME passed an ordinance last week allowing town farmers to sell products directly to consumers without the farm having to meet state regulations, the news quickly became national. But it wasn’t really ‘new’ news. Brooksville was the ninth town in Maine to pass a food sov...
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