In response to ongoing and worsening drought conditions across the state, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets (VAAFM) is launching a 2025 Agriculture Drought Impact Survey to understand its effects on Vermont farms. This year's drought is the third consecutive season farmers have suffered severe weather impacts, including frost and floods, and now drought. Many Vermont businesses, still not fully recovered from the 2023 and 2024 frosts and flooding, are once again facing uncertainty and impacts.
VAAFM is asking Vermont's agricultural producers to participate in the 2025 Agriculture Drought Impact Survey. The purpose of this survey is to capture the scale and location of drought related impacts experienced throughout the state in 2025. The survey will remain open to capture information on loss and damages until the deadline of December 15, 2025. Participants are welcome to submit more than one report, if they incur additional losses, but we request that they only report “new” impacts.
VAAFM asks that any agricultural business, organization, or individual that raise animals, meat, or poultry and/or grow feed or other crops (produce, maple, Christmas trees, horticultural plants) for anyone beyond their immediate family fill out this survey.