Farms affected by 2025 drought conditions are asked to complete a survey to capture impacts to agricultural community
Vermont Business Magazine 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.
Complete 2025 Agriculture Drought Impact Survey
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.
This survey does not include forestry or cannabis production, or food industry and security businesses who do not complete production activities (ex: slaughter facilities, gleaning organizations, aggregation and distribution facilities). Instead, we invite these individuals to submit their drought-related impacts, photos and observations to the Condition Monitoring Observer Reporting tool (CMOR): https://droughtimpacts.unl.edu/tools/conditionmonitoringobservations.aspx.
We thank those who have previously reported their 2025 drought impacts to the US Drought Monitor, FSA, or VAAFM this summer, but we strongly encourage them to also fill out this survey so their data can be compiled alongside all other newly collected data and drought impacts in Vermont. This Agriculture Drought Impact Survey should take between 10 and 15 minutes to complete.
Survey responses collected following flooding and severe weather impacts in 2023 and 2024 provided crucial data to support making additional recovery resources available to Vermont farms. VAAFM intends for the 2025 Agriculture Drought Impact Survey to serve a similar purpose.
For more information on drought navigation and support resources for farms experiencing impacts, please visit https://agriculture.vermont.gov/drought, email [email protected] or call 802-828-2430.
October 17, 2025 | Montpelier, VT – VAAFM
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