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2025 Annual Meeting
January 15th, Wednesday
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Billings Farm in Woodstock, VT
come early for coffee (9:30 am), stay for lunch (12:00), hang around for a barn tour (2:00 pm)
Speakers and Topics Include:
Quality Forage Production
Conservation Tillage: 10 years of Strip- and Reduce-tillage
Ag Plastic Recycling
Secretaries Tebbets (VT) and Jasper (NH)
And keynote: Mike Ghia, Land for Good
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2025 Annual Meeting Agenda
January 15th, 10.00 - 2.00 pm
Billings Farm in Woodstock, VT
09.30 Coffee and Snacks
10.00 Welcome & Call to Order
Approval of 2025 Agenda
Approval of 2024 Annual Meeting minutes
President of the Board Comments
10.10 CRWFA Executive Director Updates
10.20 VT Secretary of Agriculture, Anson Tebbetts, VAAFM
10.30 Session 1: Talking Forage Quality: Improve Animal Productivity and Your
Profit (Bill Kipp, Independent Dairy Consultants)
11.00 Comments
Kelly Stettner, Ottauquechee NRCD
Jennifer Byrne, White River NRCD
Laura Dipietro, VAAFM
Steven Winnet, EPA
11.20 Session 2: Conservation Tillage: 10 years of reduced-till and strip-till in
New Hampshire (Chad Cochran, NH-NRCS)
11:50 NH Secretary of Agriculture
Shawn Jasper, NHDAMF
12.05 Lunch
12.45 CRWFA business: 2024 Financial Report, 2025 year plan and budget
approval, board nominations, honoring Linda Coarse and Steve Stocking
1.00 Keynote: Mike Ghia: Farm Transitions, Perspectives on Change
1.20 Follow up Conversation: Years Past, Years Ahead, Farming in the CRW
1:55 Wrap-up
2.00 Adjourn
2.05 Barns tour with Phillipe Ranney, Farm Manager at Billings Farm
The 2024 Annual Meeting was held on Wednesday, January 17th at Newmont Farm, Bradford, VT
Special thanks to Walt and Margaret Gladstone for hosting; and to Willie, Becky, Abby, Heather, and Tom for presenting. And Thank You everyone for getting together. It was really great to see so many people in person. There were 71 of us there - more than half farmers.
We didn't get to everything on our agenda, so let's plan to get together again. More on that to come.
Meeting Notes Here: Click for meeting minutes
Recording Here: Click for the Zoom recording (use this passcode: c1&sL#MS)
2024 Annual Meeting Agenda
Wednesday 1/17/24, 11 am - 3 pm
Zoom Option
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82894559525?pwd=5y070QVAgt5IxM0lNss01NIlh5fGpX.1
Meeting ID: 828 9455 9525
Passcode: 645349
11:00 am Call to Order/Approval of Agenda/Introductions
11:10 am Executive Director remarks
11:15 am 2024 CRWFA Plan (Mike)
11:30 am Fertility Conversation 1: Minerals, Cations, and Liming for Soil Health (Willie Gibson)
12:00 pm Lunch
12:25 pm John Roberts, FSA-Vermont
12:30 pm Jennifer Byrne, WR NRDC
12:35 pm Fertility Conversation 2: Nitrogen Management, the PSNT (Becky Maden, Abby Augarten)
1:00 pm Conversation 3: After the Flood: What to do with flooded and damaged fields? (Heather Darby, Tom Beaudry)
1:30 pm Follow-up conversation for presenters about nutrient management and field health (all)
1:50 pm Break, end of public meeting
2:00 pm Farmers-only business
Brief Survey: ag plastics (Guy, Mike)
Financial report, 2023 (Linda)
2023 Annual meeting minutes (Beth)
Board nominations (Bill)
2:15 pm Guided Conversation: Some stories, some worries, some talk about the future (all)
3:00 pm Adjournment
2 x Water Quality Training Credits for Farmers and Custom Applicators
Come early for the NRCS VT State Technical Committee meeting, 9:30am - 10:45am
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