Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment: UVM changes the name of its ag program
University of Vermont boasts a unique land-grant legacy. Justin Morrill, a Vermonter, was the legislator who wrote and sponsored the Morrill Act of 1862, which gave federal lands to states to establish colleges for science and agricultural education. That bill, which Abraham Lincoln signed into law, paved the way for the majority of today’s agricultural education. Generations of farmers have...
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Jason Konefal to join UVM as Chair of the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics
Jason Konefal, the new chair of the Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, is originally from upstate New York. He grew up in the Catskill Mountains in a small town of about 250, and his parents owned a small inn and restaurant.
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Attitudes Such As a Distrust of Government Can Cause Swine Farmers to Resist Animal Biosecurity: UVM Study Finds
A new University of Vermont study published this week in Nature: Scientific Reports examines the social and psychological aspects of farmers’ decisions about whether or not to implement biosecurity measures on pig farms. This is the first study to look at human behavior in biosecurity adoption among swine producers.
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