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• SATELLITE VESSEL MONITORING SYSTEM ENSURES OYSTER SAFETY

• SIGNIFICANT PARCEL OF FARMLAND PRESERVED IN ROCKY HILL

• FOOD SAFETY -Violative Antibiotic Tissue Residues at Slaughter: Sorting Out Who, What and Why

• LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

• GROWING INTO THE FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT

• Legislative Update

• GUIDANCE REGARDING THE SINGLE-USE PLASTIC BAG FEE

• SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 2019 CT FARM TO CHEF WEEK SEPTEMBER 15 TO 21 2019

• River Plain Dairy Modernizes Milking

  In 2019, the Cone Family of River Plain Dairy in Lebanon applied for a Farm Transition Grant, seeking financial support to transition the dairy operation from a two times daily manual milking farm to an automated on-demand Voluntary Milking System. Already having purchased the milking robot, the grant project included constructing a facility to house the milking system as well as support its technological components.

• Desantis Farm Promotes Pig and Poultry Production

  Desantis Farm of Watertown was established by Mike Desantis in 2012. Mike founded the farm with little to no equipment--just some pigs and a love of farming. By 2019, Mike and his wife, Joann, and three daughters, raised over 100 pigs a year, meat birds and turkeys, sold eggs, grew ten acres of produce, 5,000 bales of hay, and over 40 acres of corn for the pigs and poultry.

• Dzen Farm and Pell Strawberries Enhance Strawberry Production

  The Farm Transition Grant Infrastructure Investment category provides matching funds to CT Farmers in need of critical infrastructure to increase farm production. Two strawberry producers, Dzen Farms and Pell Strawberries in recently completed projects to increase their production of CT Grown strawberries.

• Pilot BIPOC Apprenticeship/Mentor Program

• On-Farm Energy Resources

• Commissioner

• Licenses & Permits - NEW