Kirsten Workman, Agronomy Outreach Specialist, UVM Extension

44 Pages·2017·4.37 MB·English

by  Galen Dow

Kirsten Workman, Agronomy Outreach Specialist, UVM
Extension
Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Assoc. Jan. 24, 2017
• Field & Forage Crop
Production
• Grazing & Pasture
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Management
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• Nutrient
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work with farmers
• Cover Crops throughout the
Kirst Champlain Basin to
• Soil Health
en investigate and
share techniques to
• Water Quality
grow the highest
Dan
quality crops in the
• Agronomic Technical
most efficient way,
Assistance
while protecting soil
health and water
Cher quality.
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Audy Farm (New Haven)
THANK YOU!
Clifford Farm (Starksboro)
Chimney Point Farm (Addison)
FARMERS
Conant Farm (Richmond)
Deer Valley Farm (Ferrisburgh)
DeGraaf Dairy (Richmond)
Farr Farm (Richmond)
The Farm at VYCC (Richmond)
Foster Bros. Farm (Middlebury)
Gleason Grains (Bridport)
Jillian Holstein (Orwell)
LaBerge Bros. Farm (Charlotte)
Mountain Meadows Farm (Sudbury)
Nichols Fodder Farm (Charlotte)
No-Mon-Nee Farm (Addison)
Nor-Dic Farm (Panton)
No. Williston Cattle Co. (Williston)
Pouliot Farm (Westford)
Rail View Dairy (New Haven)
Senesac Farm (Colchester)
Thibault Farm (Colchester)
Vorsteveld Farm (Panton)
THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS
This material is based upon work that is
Conservation Innovation Grants supported by the National Institute of Food and
Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
under award number 2014-68006-21864.
What’s SHE doing here?
Recovering vegetable grower
convinces livestock producers to
grow vegetables?
Extension agronomist feeds
vegetables to cattle (and her field
technicians)?
When you’re married to a vegetable
farmer….
Why Cover Crops,
Why now??

Cover Crops in VT…a recent history
201
EPA
Cover crops
withdraws
are in
1 TMDL
limited use
approval
201
Helicopter
Multiple Aerial
grain Seeding
2 drills project
available begins
for farmers (2500
201 acres)
Helicopter
project
seeds over
3
5,000
acres
201
First year
~10,000 of the No
4 acres Till &
planted Cover Crop
Symposium
201
First RAPs under
~20,000 season of development
5 acres High Boy (include cover
planted cover crop
cropping requirement)
201
First year
that
~30,000
6 InterSeeder
acres
™is
available
Cover Crops and the
Champlain Valley Farmer Coal.
9,100 acres planted in 2016
6,785 acres planted in 2015