Agriculture

WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Senator Angus King (I-Maine) today introduced the Farmland Access Act, legislation that will help protect American farmland for its intended use and expand access to farming for the next generation. The bill updates an existing, but underutilized, program within the…

ESSEX JUNCTION, VT—Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Vermont Governor Phil Scott, Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts, and State and local agriculture stakeholders visited farmer Paul Mazza and his family at the Paul Mazza’s Fruit and Vegetables farm in Essex Junction today to survey extensive damage to…

WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) to introduce the Market Access, Promotion and Landowner Education Support for Your Regionally Underserved Producers (MAPLE SYRUP) Act last week, legislation extending and expanding the Access and Development Program, which supports maple…

WASHINGTON—Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) addressed the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research yesterday during a hearing on opportunities to support specialty crop producers in the 2023 Farm Bill. Welch’s remarks centered on the important role specialty crop producers…

WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.-AL) announced a $23,270 federal grant through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Energy for America Program to help in the installation of a roof-top solar array on…