by the UNH CREAM Class, Becca Standish and Professor Drew Conroy At the University of New Hampshire, the CREAM students spend an academic year managing a small herd of 20+ cows located at the Fairchild Dairy and Teaching Center in Durham, NH. This course is considered student centered, as students b...

MONTPELIER, VT — Dairy farmers told the Vermont Senate Agriculture Committee about their lives and farms at a hearing Friday, April 5. Legislators heard that the Current Use program is critical, and that a methane digester on every farm would be good. Current Use taxes farm and forest land at its wo...

At one time, most young farmers were the children of farmers and probably farmed land that had been in the family for generations. Corie Pierce and Adam Wilson don’t fit that mold. Pierce grew up in New Hampshire down the road from a vegetable farm. At 14, she went there for a summer job and stayed ...

Farm visits can be life-changing experiences for families and students. By taking a few important steps around safety on the farm, farmers can help ensure that these are successful experiences for everyone. At a recent ABCs of Farm-Based Education Workshop at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, VT, 20 far...

by Sabryn Whitman, University of Massachusetts Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Every January, students from different New England universities spend a week touring dairy farms on a trip known as the Winter Traveling Dairy Tour. This year, students from the University of Massachusetts, t...

By STEVEN YACCINO FAIR OAKS, Ind. — Here at one of the largest dairy farms in the country, electricity generated using an endless supply of manure runs the equipment to milk around 30,000 cows three times a day. For years, the farm has used livestock waste to create enough natural gas to power 10 ba...

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...

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 ...

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...