Vermont Dairy Farms

May 9, 2008 | Posted by admin

Well It’s Friday, time to relax a bit for the weekend. I’ve got some stuff to fix down at the sugar house, making that pure Vermont maple syrup is a year long job! I thought I’d talk a bit about the dairy farms here in Vermont, since they are such a big part of our state.

Tourist are surprised at how many dairy farms there are in the state. Just about anywhere you go you will find a dairy farm. In fact dairy farms are the #1 agricultural business in the state. Farmers have been carving out patches of pasture out of the hilly woods of Vermont for many years.

Most of the state is a combination of rolling hills with patchworks of pastures cut out, with hundreds of those black and white cows dotting the landscape. In fact there are more cows than people in the state of Vermont! (more…)

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