2024 Course of Action

Check out Rural Vermont’s 2024 Course of Action, an overview of some of the many issue areas we work on and support. Highlights include: 

  • New Stakeholder Group! Seeking the sale of uninspected parted poultry - sign up HERE to engage in this work during the 2024 legislative session. 

  • On-Farm Slaughter Livestock: continued federal campaign to protect Vermont's OFS law from arbitrary USDA decisions in relation to “equal to” status of meat inspection programs. 

  • Neonicotinoids: 2024 state legislation to further reduce & restrict the use of neonicotinoids in the environment, including phasing out neonicotinoid treated seeds in VT, while advocating for supporting farmers in transition.

  • Cannabis: Ongoing work with the VT Cannabis Equity Coalition for an economically equitable, racially just, and agriculturally accessible market.

  • Rewrite of the Required Agricultural Practices Rule: Working with the Food Cycle Coalition on a revision of the RAPs to include specifics about composting food scraps on farms - the release is being awaited for 2024. 

  • Land, Capital, and Housing: The Biodiversity Bill (Act 59) will roll out a public engagement process in 2024 to shape a Conservation Plan that includes a vision for keeping the working lands open - reach out and share your policy recommendations for securing long term access to land, capital, and housing for the agricultural community. 

  • La Via Campesina supported Agroecology and Movement Building School: We are part of a collective effort to build an agroecology & movement building school in Vermont in collaboration with local, national and international partners. This emerging and itinerant effort highlights farmer to farmer training models, popular & political education, and seeks to uplift the many farmers & farmworkers already leading this work.

Our 2024 priorities for organizing, education, advocacy and action are shaped at the intersection of many influences, but are always farm(work)er-led through direct feedback, stakeholder groups, advocacy opportunities and more, with guidance from our board, members, and greater community. Learn more about our Board of Directors HERE, or become a Rural Vermont MEMBER. 

2024 Rural Vermont Board of Directors



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