Silvopasture is the managed integration of trees and livestock, utilizing the land both to produce a tree crop and to graze livestock. This multi-tasking can result in diverse income streams, with money from timber, nuts, syrup or other tree by-product, plus income from livestock production. Silvopa...

Dysfunctional soil in your fields can’t attend a self-help program. It needs your help to bring it back to life, following nature’s system of using microbes and nutrients in organic matter to bring it back to life. Benefits include higher crop yield, less petroleum-based product use, less pesticide ...

The dairy and farmhouse cheese operations are an integral part of Shelburne Farms, a non-profit education organization in Shelburne, Vermont whose mission to cultivate a conservation ethic for a sustainable future. Tours of the dairy barn and cheesemaking operation are included in their three-day AB...

by W. Dee Whittier, DVM, MS, Extension Veterinarian, Beef Cattle — College of Veterinary Medicine, VA Tech Like in any other part of our cattle operations, resolving to do some things better for the health programs we have on our beef cattle operations might pay us dividends. So here is my list of t...

If farmers could adopt new, beneficial practices without oversight by the government, would they? Dr. Sjoerd Duiker, Penn State agronomist, believes they will. The ‘Without Carrot or Stick’ project was designed to evaluate and promote the use of cover crops after corn silage with an emphasis on smal...

NEW HAVEN, VT — A record number of 4-H’ers turned out for the State 4-H Horse Hippology Contest held on April 6 at two locations in Addison County. A total of 93 competitors from clubs in nine Vermont counties competed at the University of Vermont (UVM) Extension 4-H event held at Wishful Thinking F...

On April 5 and 6, 170 youth from New England, New York and Pennsylvania gathered at Cowtown Holsteins in Derby Line, VT to take part in this year’s Northeast Youth Show Calf Summit. Seventy-five adults also attended. The Vermont Holstein Association puts together a program that instructs the youth i...

Janice Handy, former editor of Country Folks Farm Weekly newspapers, passed away on Saturday April 13, 2013 at her residence surrounded by her loving family. Back in 1972, Mrs. Handy, began working for Lee Publications as editor of Country Folks, a weekly farm newspaper, to help her family’s busines...

When Roland and Noella Hemond purchased a 150-acre dairy farm in 1945 in Minot, Maine, they milked 25 cows. Today, the R.E. Hemond Farm is home to 600 registered Holsteins and the family farms 800 acres. Family members play an active role in the daily operation of the farm: Noella is president and o...