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Jake Kinnarney, of South Royalton, places tires over plastic to protect corn silage in a bunker at Westlands Farm in Royalton, Vt., Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. “It’ll be nice to have this done. It’s been a long couple weeks,” said Kinnarney of the time spent chopping and storing over 40 acres worth of feed corn. “It’s so dry I can’t remember the last time we had some real rain,” he said. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Feed safety

by Staff Report September 27, 2020

Sydney Gordon picks strawberries at Pierson Farm in Bradford, Vt., Friday, July 10, 2020. Gordon, who grows produce at home in Jamaica’s St. Catherine Parish, works from May to November at Pierson’s where he and fellow workers are averaging about 500 quarts of strawberries a day as the berry season draws toward its close. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Ripe for the picking

by Staff Report July 12, 2020

Linda Rice, of Pine Knoll Farm in Cornish, N.H., center, bales hay as her husband Robert Rice, left, wraps the bales in Cornish, N.H., Tuesday, June 9, 2020. They were eager to get their first cut baled before rain forecast for later this week. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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by Staff Report July 1, 2020

Lily O’Hara checks on a retractable irrigation machine that draws a sprinkler down a row of produce over a fixed period of time at Hurricane Flats, an organic produce farm in South Royalton, Vt., Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The farm pumps water from the White River to irrigate its crops. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Spring runs dry: A lack of rain early in the season worries Upper Valley farmers

by John Lippman Valley News Business WriterJune 20, 2020

Tori Mailman, of White River Junction, left, Erik Blix, 16, of Hanover, middle, and Chad Clough, of West Hartford, right, wait for the next wagonload of bales to start dropping from a conveyor while stacking hay at Pirouette Farm in Norwich, Vt., Tuesday, June 16, 2020. “It’s good for getting the hay done,” said owner Bob Piro of the stretch of dry weather allowing him to put up his first cut of hay for the season. “Now hopefully we’ll get some rain so second cut will grow.” (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Hay day in Norwich

by Staff Report June 17, 2020

Kacey Knight singes remaining hair from a pig slaughtered at Vermont Packinghouse in North Springfield, Vt., on May 19, 2020. Knight supervises an eight-man crew on the "kill floor" at the 30,000 square-foot meatpacking plant. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Upper Valley slaughterhouses rise to meat demand during pandemic

by John Lippman Valley News Business WriterMay 23, 2020

Diana Kimball-Anderson, of Thetford, garden coordinator at the Enfield Shaker Museum, prunes blueberry bushes in the museum’s garden in Enfield, N.H., Saturday, April 25, 2020. Her son, William Anderson, 18, left, worked in the museum’s garden where she runs a 15-week, pick-your-own herb and berry CSA of the garden. “We tend to attract most of our CSA people for our funky herbs,” said Kimball-Anderson of the medicinal, culinary and dying plants in the plot. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Blue prune

by Staff Report April 27, 2020

Mike Miller tastes the most recent draw of maple syrup while boiling with his brother-in-law Wilfred Moore, left, on the Fales Farm in Sharon, Vt., where they both have homes, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. It was their second boil after the warm weekend weather. Miller said that the sap is "dribbling a little, but we haven't got a real run yet." "There's nothing better. It's not peopley at all. Nothing better than sugaring," he said. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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‘Nothing better’ than fresh syrup in Sharon

by Staff Report February 27, 2020

Heidi Bundy remembers helping tend 3,000 taps in her family's maple orchard on Tomapo Farm whe she was a kid. Bundy walked the sap lines on the farm in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, placing some of the 1,600 taps that she now uses to collect sap by vacuum. The farm has been in Bundy's family for ten generations, since 1763 and she said every generation has tried something a little different. Over the 250 years since the land was cleared, it has produced sheep, walnuts and butternuts, dairy, and is now primarily managed as woodland. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Walking the real Maple Avenue in Lebanon

by Staff Report February 18, 2020

Beer waste helps heifers

by Sarah Earle Valley News Staff WriterFebruary 11, 2020