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Home baker urges raising Vermont small-producer cap to $30,000

2777023 · March 26, 2025
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A Vermont home baker told the Senate Agriculture Committee she supports raising the gross-receipts cap for home food processors to $30,000 and asked that the $100 annual licensing fee be waived for small producers.

Rosslyn, a sole-proprietor home baker who said she mixes and bakes by hand and sells weekly to a small CSA and farm pickup points, asked the Senate Agriculture Committee on March 26 to raise Vermont’s gross‑receipts cap for home food producers and to exempt very small bakers from an annual licensing fee.

“I bake sourdough bread, a 100% New England ingredient,” Rosslyn said in testimony, describing her supply chain and saying she makes about $1.90 net per $6 loaf after…

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