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The Miller Research Center is located one mile from the main ¶¶Òõ̽̽ campus. The complex has one section dedicated the CREAM program and a separate barn which houses the Ellen A. Hardacre Center for Equine studies. This large horse barn boasts 22 stalls, an indoor riding arena. The Hardacre barn is used for the Equine classes, the Dressage team, and houses the student-run Horse Barn Coop. 

Want to visit the farm? We have a self-guided tour and info for you!

Miller Farm - Self Guided Tour Packet (PDF) 
Please be sure to follow all signage and use caution around farm equipment.

Visitors: 500 Spear Street South Burlington VT 05403

Start at our visitor kiosk and follow the directions in our farm tour packet (link above).

Hours: 10AM - 4PM 7 days a week

Be advised that the facility is occasionally closed for biosecurity reasons.  If you'd like to check in advance whether the Miller Complex is open to the public email Stephen.Wadsworth@uvm.edu or creamer@uvm.edu.

The mission of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Paul R. Miller Research and Educational Center is to provide excellence and cost effective facilities for agricultural research, education, and to play a key role in the development and promotion of agriculture in Vermont and New England. The MREC activities emphasize dairy research, equine sciences, mammary biology, milk quality, biosecurity and safety.

The ELLEN A. HARDACRE Equine Center boasts a horse barn that contains 22 stalls, a tack room, horse shower, an inside riding arena, and is home to the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Horse Barn Cooperative.  The Equine Center is used for hands-on coursework in equus studies as well as equine workshops, events, and presentations. Complimenting the indoor facility is a state-of-the-art 220 X 110 foot covered riding area, as well as a riding trail that is easily accessible from the complex. 

This facility is located on the northern edge of the Paul Miller Research Complex on Spear Street in South Burlington, just a mile from ¶¶Òõ̽̽'s main campus.  

The ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Horse Barn COOP allows students to bring their horses to ¶¶Òõ̽̽ while they are enrolled at the university.  Student involved in the COOP maintain all aspects of care and responsibility for the horses.  

This  facility was made possible by the generous donation of Amy Tarrant.

Hours: 10:00am-4:00pm open 7 days a week, tours on weekdays preferred.

The Horse Barn hosts a popular, community event each fall: the Annual ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Halloween Horse Barn. Students dress their horses up in costumes and the public can trick or treat the stalls.

For more information about the Horse Barn Coop or events contact horsebarn@uvm.edu.

CREAM, Cooperative for Real Education in Agricultural Management, is a student-run dairy herd. ¶¶Òõ̽̽ students manage farm operation and perform all of the barn chores. There are currently 56 lactating Holstein cows with additional replacement animals (just under 100 cows total) in the herd. It is the 3rd highest genetically superior herd out of all universities and is one of the highest producing herds in the state of Vermont. This program is offered as a year-long program beginning in the spring and continuing in the fall semester, and alternatively is also available during the summer semester. The year-long session offers 8 credits (4 per semester) to roughly 20 students each year, and the summer session offers 4 credits. Successful applicants are selected from all majors across the University and are not required to have a dairy or livestock background. The key requirements are a commitment to working hard and the thirst for knowledge. A CREAM student will leave this program with the skills necessary to excel in his/her chosen field whether that be business management, community development and applied economics, animal science, or biology.

CREAM - Program Brochure (PDF) 

The CREAM Program is an immersive, hands-on experience in which students learn to manage an actual dairy herd. It's a chance for pre-vet and other students with dairy interests to learn all aspects of bovine health, milking, care for young calves as well as business decisions associated with a real farm operation. All chores are performed by students seven days a week.

How to schedule a CREAM-specific tour

For a guided farm tour by a current CREAMer, please schedule a visit by emailing a current creamer.

Email: CREAMer@uvm.edu

Terrill Building is our main building on the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ central campus. Housing the offices of all of our faculty, staff and most of our research labs this building also has two small conference rooms and an undergraduate teaching lab on the second floor which is used for Into to Animal Science.

Jeffords is also on the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ central campus and the Animal & Veterinary sciences program has an undergraduate teaching lab on the 1st floor. This space hosts our Animal Anatomy lab and our Advanced Nutrition lab. 

The ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Morgan Horse Farm is dedicated to the preservation and improvement of the Morgan Horse through breeding and selection. Designated as a site on the National Register of Historic Places, the farm is also home to significant Morgan history and a variety of educational programs. For over 60 years, the farm has provided educational experiences and training for students and visitors while perpetuating the Battell, Government, and ¶¶Òõ̽̽ bloodlines. ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Morgans are prized as superb pleasure horses for recreational use and as foundation broodstock. Animal Science courses often visit the farm and students may apply to be MHF interns, or post-graduation for the prestigious MHF Apprenticeship.

¶¶Òõ̽̽ Morgan Horse Farm
74 Battell Drive
Weybridge, VT 05753
Phone: 802-388-2011
Fax: 802-388-0844
E-mail: uvm.morgans@uvm.edu