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18th Annual VT Grazing & Livestock Conference

Conference Schedule

9:00am EST

Building a Productive, Profitable and Pleasurable Farm Operation: Part 1 (Low Stress Livestock Handling) Edgewater Room Soil Health: Morning Basics Theatre

12:15pm EST

Lunch Discussion: A Conversation with the VT Agency of Agriculture Lake Morey Dining Room (Marked Table)

1:00pm EST

Building a Productive, Profitable and Pleasurable Farm Operation: Part 2 (Farm Planning) Edgewater Room Soil Health: Afternoon Intensive Theatre

4:00pm EST

Exhibition Tables Open Lake Morey Room

5:00pm EST

Vendor Reception Morey Room

7:00pm EST

Buffet Dinner Starts (tickets available for purchase through Lake Morey Resort) Dining Room

8:00am EST

New Farmer Coaching Card Room Exhibition Tables Open Lake Morey Room

9:00am EST

New Farmer Coaching Card Room A Critical Examination of Northern-tier Grass-Fed/Finished Beef Production Systems Lake Morey TBA Soil Health Basics Lake Morey TBA To Debt or Not to Debt: Working Together to Decide What Fits Lake Morey TBA Double Duty: Cover Crops as Forage Crops Lake Morey TBA Grazing Fundamentals Lake Morey TBA Low Stress Stock Handling Lake Morey TBA Designing and Delivering On-Farm Research Lake Morey TBA Kids' Conference Room 231

10:30am EST

New Farmer Coaching Card Room

10:45am EST

Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Speech Terrace Ballroom

12:15pm EST

Lunch Discussion: A Conversation with the VT Agency of Agriculture Lake Morey TBA Lunch Discussion: Conserving Grassland Bird Habitat Lake Morey TBA Lunch Discussion: Vermont Farm Resilience in a Changing Climate Lake Morey TBA Lunch Discussion: VT's New On-Farm Slaughter Law: Is It Working For You? Lake Morey TBA

12:30pm EST

New Farmer Coaching Card Room

1:15pm EST

Grass-Based Farm Demonstrations: Year 1 Lake Morey TBA Deciding Whether to Farm Full Time: A Farm Viability Scenario Lake Morey TBA Higher-Quality Haylage and Baleage Means More Money in Your Pocket Lake Morey TBA Troubleshooting Fence From Design to Containment Lake Morey TBA On-Farm Research Results From Around the Region Lake Morey TBA Grazing and Soil Health Lake Morey TBA From Growing to Showing: How to Make Your Swine Shine! Waterlot Kids' Conference Room 231

1:30pm EST

New Farmer Coaching Card Room

2:45pm EST

Fertilizer from Urine: Clean Rivers. Sustainable Farms Lake Morey TBA From Farmers to Processors: Transition Lessons Learned--SESSION CANCELLED Lake Morey TBA Balancing Ruminant Nutrition in a Pasture-based System Lake Morey TBA Feeding Into December: Twenty Years of Season Extension Lake Morey TBA Soil and Water Movement Through a Farm: Observations and Meaning Lake Morey TBA More Sheep, Less Work: What’s the Right Size? Lake Morey TBA Using New Soil Knowledge to Test and Demonstrate Ideas Lake Morey TBA

2:50pm EST

New Farmer Coaching Card Room

4:30pm EST

End the Day with an Ice Cream Social! Morey Room