Featured this month on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program:

• Virginia agriculture and forestry contributed $105 billion to Virginia’s economy in 2021 and provided nearly 500,000 jobs.
  
  
• Historic funding will help Virginia farmers protect the commonwealth’s waterways.
  
  
• Lawmakers are considering changes to the federal farm bill, and Farm Bureau members are weighing in.
  
  
• Sheep and maple syrup reign supreme in Alleghany County, featured on this month’s County Agricultural Close-up.

January’s first episode can now be viewed on the Real Virginia YouTube channel. The second episode, which is scheduled to premiere Jan. 15 also will be available on YouTube.

Real Virginia airs nationwide at 3:30 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month on RFD-TV on Dish Network and DirecTV, and on selected cable outlets around the state. It airs weekly on WBRA digital channel 15.2, WHRO Norfolk, WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third weekends of each month on WVIR Charlottesville, WHSV Harrisonburg and WRLH Richmond.