There was a time when Vermont’s landscape was dotted with weathered red barns full of dairy cows, and every country store was chockablock with local maple syrup and candies. The barns are there still, as are their fading illustrations of cows, and the sugar maples still draw leaf peepers in the fall. But because of industry shifts and climate change, many of the cows are gone and the state’s biggest agricultural products are imperiled.
Vermont’s dairy farms recede, giving way to shrimp, saffron and new ideas
As climate and other factors make milk and maple syrup harder to produce, a raft of new crops and farm businesses see an opportunity
By Laura Reiley
and December 2, 2022 at 7:42 a.m. EST
