Posts relating to Agri/culture.
Our latest deep dive into the impacts of Vermont’s large-farm dairies focused on the extensive use of antibiotics within these confinement operations, and the Ag Agency’s “look away” approach to addressing the threat of on-farm pharmaceutical overuse, which gives rise
Vermont’s agricultural economy has been wrecked by its over reliance on a failed and destructive factory-farm dairy model, where an overproduction of cheap milk is enriching milk buyers like Ben & Jerry’s and Cabot Cheese but bankrupting our small farm
Also published in Alternet. The proposed remarriage of two agrochemical giants with dark histories promises more bad things. Fifty years ago, the Monsanto and Bayer corporations were forced to separate in order to avoid violating basic antitrust regulations. U.S. courts
Also published in the VTDigger By Will Allen and Michael Colby It’s no secret that the conventional dairy industry is in a deep, downward spiral, decades in the making. This is largely the result of a commodity-based pricing scheme that
By MICHAEL COLBY & WILL ALLEN Vermont agriculture exists in what seems to be two parallel universes, one in our minds and the other in reality. When people are asked to think about or imagine Vermont farming, they’ll inevitably mention
