Calendar

Calendar - Events of Interest and Grant Deadlines

Updated 1/14/2026

January

1/15 Invasive Plant Species series: Roundleaf Bittersweet (online)

1/16 early registration for Northeast Dairy Innovation Summit (online)

1/21 CRWFA Annual Meeting

1/21 Soybean Production in the Northeast (online)

1/22 Invasive Plant Species series: Japanese Knotweed (online)

1/29 Invasive Plant Species series: Creative Solutions (online)

1/30 & 31, NE Grazing & Livestock Conference (Manchester, NH)

February

2/04 Impacts of Seed Treatments on Beneficial Insects in Field Crop Production (online)

2/05 Legal Food Hub winter series: Small Business Set Up & Taxes (online)

2/06 Conservation Speed Dating (Reading, VT)

2/10 CRWFA Monthly Meeting (online/WRJ, 11-12)

2/10 CRWFA Monthly Meeting: Interseeding (online/WRJ, 12-1pm)

2/12 On-Farm Milk Culturing for Mastitis Management (Woodstock, VT)

2/12 Legal Food Hub winter series: Exploring H2-A (online)

2/14 NOFA-VT Winter Conference (Colchester, VT)

2/14 Milk Quality for Small Ruminant Producers (UVM Davis Center, Burlington, online)

2/17 Selling Meat, Poultry & Dairy Products at NH Farmers Markets (online)

2/18 Corn Hybrid Varieties, Pests of Seed Crop Seeds, and Seed Protections (online)

2/19 No-Till and Cover Crop Conference (Burlington, 9:00 - 4:00 pm)

2/19 Legal Food Hub winter series: Farm Property Insurance (online)

2/21-22 Sausage Making Master Class (VSI, Randolph, VT, 9:00 - 4:00 pm)

2/26 Legal Food Hub winter series: Farmers & Lending Law (online)

March

3/01 Establishing a Mushroom Yard (West Danville, VT)

3/04 Bedded Pack Manure Management (Highgate, VT)

3/04 Getting Started with iNaturalist (online)

3/05 FWA Precision Ag Conference (St Albans, VT)

3/05 Dairy Sustainability Day (Middlebury, VT)

3/05 Legal Food Hub winter series: USDA NAD Appeals (online)

3/07 NOFA-NH Winter Conference (New London, NH)

3/10 CRWFA Monthly Meeting (online/WRJ, 11-1pm)

3/10 Pesticides and PFAS (online)

3/10-11 Northeast Dairy Innovation Summit (Albany, NY)

3/18 Northern Grain Growers Conference (Essex, VT)

3/26 Connecticut River Watershed Bi-State Ag Meeting with Congressional Delegates (Walpole, NH)

3/31 Sanitation Practices for Greenhouse Production (online)

April

4/07 Initial Pesticide Certification meeting (Brattleboro and St Johnsbury, VT)

Grants and Cost-Share

January

1/15 - NRCS Application Deadline Extended for 2026

1/16 - Interest letter for NEK Adaptation Planning Group due (VT)

1/21 - Trade Show Assistance Grant application due (VT)

February

2/1 - NH Climate Resilience Grants (same info for all NH Conservation Districts)

2/1 - Cheshire County Conservation Opportunity Fund (NH)

2/1 - Cheshire County MFC Farm Fund grant (NH)

March

3/1 - The Big E Vendor application due

Deadline unclear

Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) Stage One Application, USDA (FSA) programs for 2023, 2024 losses from natural disasters.  Contact your Conservation District or FSA agent.

Ongoing

VT - Farmstead BMP

VT - Pasture and Surface Water Fencing

VT - Seeding and Filter Strip

VT - CREP (Conservation Reserve Enhancement Programs)

Help with Conference or Workshop costs

• For farmers, custom operators, and service providers: is there a conference or event (water quality-focused) that is expensive or far away?  If you would like help paying for a training like that, the VT Agency of Ag can help.  Click here for more information.  For registration fees and/or travel costs.  This is run through the FAP program (Farm Agronomic Practice).

• FACT (Food Animal Concerns Trust) can offer up to $400 to attend a conference or workshop (for registration fees).  Click here for more information.

Good Luck!