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What’s New!
Announcing our 2013 Summer Field Day Events.
Stay tuned as we schedule and add more!
2013 Grain Research Tour, Borderview Research Farm – Thursday, June 27, 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Register online at www.uvm.edu/extension/graintour.
2013 Annual UVM Extension Northwest Crops & Soils Field Day, Borderview Research Farm – Thursday, August 1, 2013
Registration information and event details are not complete at this time. Save the date and check back for more information!
Open House at Cornell University Willsboro Farm, Willsboro, NY, Wed. July 10, 2013, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
There will be a tour of the facilities and research plots. The 352 acre farm was donated in 1982 by E. Vreeland Baker, a Willsboro farmer and entrepreneur, to Cornell University for agricultural research and demonstration. This event is free and open to the public. Participants will meet and leave for the tour from the main office at 2:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information, call 518-963-7492 and click here for additional information.
Massachusetts Hops Field Day, Four Star Farm, Northfield, MA – Thursday, August 15, 2013
Registration information and event details are not complete at this time. Save the date and check back for more information!
For your information – there is currently GMO labeling legislation that is under consideration in Vermont. To read more, click on Statement in Support House Bill H.112, which is an act relating to the labeling of food produced with genetic engineering.
If this link is not available, you will find a link to the letter here under “Talk to Food Producers” – Right to Know GMOs Action Center.
The UVM Cereal Grain Testing Laboratory will be closing for routine maintenance at the end of February and reopening just in time for harvest in July 2013.
2012 Grains Research Trials Reports
2012 Small Grain Forage Report (pdf)
2012 Small Grain Forage Fertility Report (pdf)
2012 Spring Barley Variety Trial (pdf)
2012 Winter Barley Variety Trials (pdf)
2012 Spring Wheat Variety Trial Report (pdf)
2012 Winter Wheat Variety Trial Report (pdf)
2012 Heirloom Spring Wheat Trial (pdf)
2012 Heirloom Winter Wheat Trial (pdf)
2012 Oat Variety (pdf)
2012 Organic Spring Wheat Seeding Rate Trial (pdf)
2012 Organic Spring Wheat Planting Date Trial (pdf)
2012 Organic Winter Wheat Planting Date Trial (pdf)
2012 Organic Spring Wheat Weed Control Strategies Report (pdf)
2012 Organic Corn Silage Report (pdf)
2012 Vermont On-Farm Spring Wheat Breeding Trials (pdf)
2012 Effects of Topdressing Organic Nitrogen (pdf)
2012 Reports and Executive Summaries
1) An Evaluation to Determine the Feasibility of a Multi-Purpose Grain Processing Facility in Vermont
2) Vermont Milled Grain Products Local Market Study Report, Executive Summary
3) Improving and Increasing Technical Assistance to Vermont Grain and Hops Producers, Executive Summary
PAST NEWS BITS
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Several Field Days were held for grains and forages as part of the UVM Extension Northwest Crops & Soils 2012 SUMMER SERIES. They went very well and were largely attended. Following is a slideshow of pictures from several the different Field Days.
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Past research trial results from UVM Extension’s NW Crops & Soils Team:
2011 Winter Wheat N Topdress Report (pdf)
2011 Barley Variety Trials (pdf)
2011 Spring Wheat Variety Trial (pdf)
2011 Spring Wheat Weed Control Strategies (pdf)
2011 Winter Wheat Harvest Date (pdf)
2011 Winter Wheat Variety Trial (pdf)
2010 Spring Wheat Variety Trial (pdf)
2010 Winter Wheat Variety Trial (pdf)
2010 Heirloom Wheat Variety Trial (pdf)
2010 Barley Variety Trial (pdf)
In January of 2012, a group of bakers from Maine and Vermont trialed four winter wheat varieties grown in 2011 by the University of Vermont and University of Maine. Randy George from Red Hen Baking Company, Jeffrey Hamelman from King Arthur Flour, Jim Amaral from Borealis Breads, and Alison Pray from Standard Baking Company came together at the King Arthur Baking Education Center in Norwich, VT to test-bake local wheat flours! The results were delicious. Check out the photos below.
The Northern Grain Growers Association is a “farm grown” organization. Since 2004 many of the grain growers in Vermont have been gathering together for exchanging ideas, networking, and camaraderie. The initial focus of the group was to enhance organic seed saving, plant breeding, and variety improvement. Over time the group has developed a somewhat broader focus which includes all aspects of grain production.
In recent years the interest in local grains has been increasing and the group now includes bakers, local eating enthusiasts, agricultural support personnel, and many beginning farmers.
