Tag: RAPs

  • Our Public Comment on Vermont’s Required Agricultural Practices

    Our Public Comment on Vermont’s Required Agricultural Practices

    We submitted the following letter to the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets on the last day that they were accepting public comment on the Required Agricultural Practices—or RAPs. Now that the rule has been formally submitted by the Agency, we thought we’d publish our final comments. See the bottom of this post for an…

  • Our Response to Vermont’s Proposed Required Agricultural Practices

    Our Response to Vermont’s Proposed Required Agricultural Practices

    I applaud Vermont’s Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets—herein referred to as “The Agency”—for trying to move the state’s water quality in the right direction. When our wonderful Senator Campion stood in my barnyard one morning a year or so ago and asked me my thoughts on a hypothetical program, I was all for it.…