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10 Tips for Marketing your 4-H or FFA Project

You’ve worked hard to raise your project animal. Up early in the morning to feed and water, working in the evening to clean, to feed and to prepare your animal for the show ring. You’ve attended your...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Megan Bowen

Job Title: Loan Processor Location: Gate City Branch Has anyone in particular in your family had a significant impact on you? My mom has always exemplified strength & overcoming adversity to me. I...
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Agricultural Advocacy

Have a Discussion, Not a Disagreement

Weather, pests, illness, fluctuating prices for fertilizer, seed, feed and every changing supply and demand markets – these are issues that farmers have been dealing with for generations. And each of...
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Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

How to Grow Asparagus

Spring can be associated with many things; flowers, longer days and warmer weather. Spring is also the time of year highly associated with the well-sought after vegetable, asparagus. Asparagus is a...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Brad Cornelius

Position: Chief Executive Officer Location: Staunton Admin Office Favorite childhood memory? When I was a kid, I went on many fishing trips with my dad on Lake Weiss in Alabama. Still some of my...
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Educator Resources

Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

Top 10 Soft Skills for Agriculture

When we talk about careers in agriculture, we often think about the technical skills necessary to do the job, the experience and know-how for a particular sector of ag, or as someone possessing market...
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Educator Resources

all about...FLOUR

March is recognized as National Flour Month. Almost every household in America can claim to have some type of flour in the kitchen. Wheat flour, a favorite of many from coast to coast, dates back to...
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Educator Resources

Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

10 Essential Considerations for Raising Backyard Chickens

Keeping chickens can be one of the most exciting moments during the spring season. Whether you live out in the country or in an urban neighborhood, chicken keeping can be a rewarding experience. There...
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Common Greenhouse Structures

We are nearing early spring and the urge to begin our summer gardens is becoming more prevalent. You may have seed catalogs beginning to show up in your mailbox and you may be sketching out your...
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Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

Ag Biz Participants Graduate

All the hours, all the effort, all the conversations and all the brainstorming came to culmination two weeks ago with the virtual Ag Biz Planner Final Conference and Graduation. Farm Credit of the...
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Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

Careers in Ag Outlook 2020-2025

Ambitious and prepared new college graduates enter the workforce each year. There are approximately 59,400 annual openings in the field of food, agriculture, renewable natural resources and the...
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Agricultural Advocacy

Connecting to Ag is More Important than Ever

You’ve probably heard at some point a statement similar to the following: “Less than 2% of the population is directly involved in agriculture” or “a very small percentage of the population has a...
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Choosing the Perfect Christmas Tree

Choosing the Best Type of Christmas Tree Choosing the family Christmas tree is the perfect way to create memories and traditions that can last a lifetime. Most people can tell stories of family visits...
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Educator Resources

What's so Sweet about Sweet Potatoes?

There are multiple reasons the sweet potato gets so much attention. Besides being widely consumed during the Thanksgiving holiday, the sweet potato ranks number one on the 10 Best Foods list published...
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Ag & Culture Video Series

Customer Feature Stories

Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

R.G. Cattle Company (Floyd County, VA)

RG Cattle Company is a family-owned stocker operation located in Check, Virginia. They maintain a weekly cattle buying station and are a dealer of performance feeds. In the Ag & Culture video...
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