Hosting Organizations
VT Grass Farmers Association
VT Beef Producers Association
Gold Sponsors ($1,250)
Green Sponsors ($550)
The
Royal Butcher
Sponsors
($275)
City Market
Fair Winds Farm
King's Agriseeds
NOFA-VT
Shelburne Farms
Taurus Service
Two Rivers-Ottauquchee
Regional Commission
VT Sheep & Goat
Association
VT Wagyu at Spring-Rock
Farm
Yankee Farm Credit
17th Annual VT Grazing & Livestock Conference
Global Grazing:
Lessons Learned From Around the World
Online
registration now open for credit card
payments OR to pay at the door
Full conference
brochure (4.8 MB PDF)
Saturday
schedule (PDF)
Printable
registration form (PDF)
Register
here for FREE Saturday business coaching (with
paid conference registration)
Exhibition tables still available!
Download sponsorship package here.
Two pre-conference
all-day workshops
Friday, January 18, 2013
**Poultry from
chick to chicken dinner, with
Jeff Mattocks, Dr. Anne Lichtenwalner and
Jim McLaughlin
**Communication is your best asset, with
Fred Ashforth
Main Conference
Saturday, January 19, 2013
featuring Dr. Abdon Schmitt
Abdon Schmitt is an agroecologist and professor at University of Santa Catarina–UFSC, Brazil. His teaching and research efforts focus on designing agroecological systems that interconnect ecosystem restoration, rural livelihoods, and renewable agriculture in southern Brazil. He is coordinator of the Voisin Silvopastoral Group, a participatory action research project that has worked with more than 622 farmers to make the transition from conventional farming to pasture-based and silvopastoral systems.
Plan
to stay overnight and enjoy both
conference days!
Contact Lake Morey Resort directly to
make your reservations at (800) 423-1211.
Contact
Jenn Colby, Conference Coordinator, at
(802) 656-0858, jcolby@uvm.edu
The
conference is coordinated by the
UVM
Center
for Sustainable Agriculture's Pasture Program.
Special recognition and appreciation
goes out to the University of Vermont Extension and VT
USDA-NRCS for their support, without which this
conference
would not be possible.
Thank you!
