Location: Staunton Admin Office Job Title: Fleet and Facilities Manager Tenure: 21 years FFA involvement? I was very involved in FFA as a kid and competed on the state and national levels. I still...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
RG Cattle Company is a family-owned stocker operation located in Check, Va.. They maintain a weekly cattle buying station and are a dealer of performance feeds. In the Ag & Culture video featuring R.G...
More and more producers are recognizing the opportunities inherent in agritourism and farm-based education. They see it as an extended growing season, where visitors yearning for a bucolic getaway are...
Greenmount Heritage LLC is a diversified, family-owned farm situated among the rolling hills of Rockingham County, Va. Greenmount Heritage is owned and operated by the Bailey family. Craig Bailey is...
The work of WVU Extension Service is woven throughout the fabric of all 55 West Virginia counties. For more than 115 years, our faculty and staff have been carrying out WVU’s land-grant mission of...
The West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) Veterans and Warriors to Agriculture has some exciting news to share! Earlier this month, the program officially became West Virginia Veterans and...
