CREAM is UVM's hands-on student-run dairy herd. Across the Fence visits the CREAM barn on Spear St. (the Paul Miller Research facility) to introduce a CREAM-er and the faculty advisor for the CREAM program, Dr. Stephen Wadsworth. It's about cows, agriculture, Vermont, life and death!
Across the Fence visits the UVM Horse Barn and talks to a student who brought his horse with him to UVM.
From robotic milking to virtual fencing, new technologies are transforming the way Vermont farmers work. Eric Bishop von Wettberg, Chair of the Department of Animal and Veterinary Science, is interviewed at 1:20.
In June, two Kenyan journalists visited UVM as part of their US State Department Foreign Press Center-sponsored Tour. On-camera host, Violetta Ngina and videographer Kevin Obamdo both with Citizen TV in Kenya spent five days talking to UVM students about their work in dairy. Violetta is Kenya’s top agriculture reporter. The team chose to visit Vermont because it is the state most like Kenya in terms of topography and the significance of small dairy farmers, though the climates are quite different. Kenya imports most of its livestock feed, its soil is in poor condition, and milk production averages just four liters per day per cow compared to 40 in the U.S. Violetta explored Vermont’s best practices and new dairy developments with the hope that she can persuade Kenyan farmers to improve their agricultural practices.
