Thanks for another great Farm Show, with record attendance and wonder opportunities to meet, greet and learn.
We look forward to next years show as well.
Welcome to the Vermont Farm Show, Version 2018!! We are excited to offer you access to the most innovative companies doing business on behalf of agriculturists and we hope you spend all day (or days!) visiting our vendors and attending organizational meetings.
All three days will be filled with exciting things to do, so please check the events listing as well as the vendor listings to plan your time here.
Please visit our contest displays, where you can see award winning examples of Vermont’s best maple syrup, Christmas trees, honey and fiber.
We will be hosting the FFA Student Competition on Wednesday morning beginning at 8:30 a.m., and the ever-popular Consumer Night/Capital CookOff will begin on Wednesday at 4:00 and close at 7:00 p.m.
This year, over two dozen exhibitors have offered to host “Job Fair on the Floor” booths and will be offering career information for their particular companies to anyone wishing to learn more about opportunities in agriculture. A full listing of participating vendors is in this brochure and also on a handout at the front desk. The booths will also have signage identifying them as JOB FAIR stops. These exhibitors are located throughout both Miller Buildings, so please make sure you find them all!
The Vermont Farm Show has been going strong since 1931 (with a couple years hiatus due to World War II), and we’ve traveled from Memorial Auditorium in Burlington to the Civic Auditorium in Barre to our current stop in Essex Junction. Whether you are a first time visitor or have been coming for years, we are so happy to share the future of agriculture with you!
From the Team – Jackie, Glenn, Dave and Steve
AND the Vermont Farm Show Board of Directors
As Vermont’s 2017 “Outstanding Dairy Farm of the Year”, Fairmont Farm has demonstrated a dedication to their herd, pasture, crop management, environmental practices, advancing agriculture and giving back to their local community.
Fairmont Farm consists of three separate locations, two in East Montpelier and one in Craftsbury. They milk 1,500 cows and care for over 3,600 acres of land. Nearly 100% of their land is planted without tilling the soil, which allows important nutrients to stay in the soil and prevents run-off into local waterways. Forty full and part time employees work on the farm, which provides 13,850 gallons of milk a day to the Cabot Creamery Co-operative facility in Cabot, Vermont.
In 1992 Fairmont Farm was formed when three family dairy farms came together. The newly formed farm allowed for the transition of operations and the business to the third generation of family members. Today, Fairmont is owned by Richard and Bonnie Hall and Tucker Purchase.
Congratulations to all!
We are proud to partner with the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf- so even though parking and admission to the Farm Show is free, we are asking all those attending to donate a canned or non-perishable goods or cash donations to the greeters as you walk in the front door of the Miller Building. The response was wonderful last year, and we hope to again help fill the shelves.
Thanks to the Vermont Historical Society and all who shared memories and images, knowingly or otherwise, through Google Images, UTube and personal blogs and scrapbooks.
Thanks to the Vermont Historical Society and all who shared memories and images, knowingly or otherwise, through Google Images, UTube and personal blogs and scrapbooks.