Agriculture

The Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Women’s Leadership Committee posthumously honored Kathy Coffee of Lunenburg County with its Outstanding Woman in Agriculture Award Nov. 29 at the VFBF Annual Convention in Virginia Beach.

Dr. Amanda Weakley-Scott of Madison County took top honors Nov. 28 in Virginia Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers Discussion Meet in Virginia Beach during the VFBF Annual Convention.

Midlothian-based fertilizer company NTP Technologies earned top honors in the second annual Virginia Foundation for Agriculture, Innovation and Rural Sustainability Agricultural and Forestry Innovation Challenge.

The president of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation said that the money the 2023 General Assembly appropriated for agricultural best management practices stands to make a difference in improving the quality of the Chesapeake Bay.

The Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers Committee honored Howard Nester of Chesterfield County with its 2023 Warren Beach Award for his contributions to the VFBF Young Farmers Program.

The American court system is “incredibly important” for agricultural advocacy. That was the message from Travis Cushman during a workshop titled “Courts and Ports: A Look at Legal and Economic Issues Facing American Agriculture.”

Harleigh Cupp, a reporter for the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, was recognized Nov. 28 with Virginia Farm Bureau Federation’s 2023 Ishee-Quann Award for Media Excellence, the top honor in Farm Bureau’s annual Journalism Awards program.

If you’re having a hard time choosing your Christmas tree from one of Virginia’s 500 tree farms this season, just stop and listen. 

It’s a tricky proposition. Virginia farmers need to continue producing the quality agricultural products necessary for feeding a growing global population—and many do that in direct proximity to the nation’s largest estuary and its watershed.

As the cost of consumer goods continues to trend upward, so has the price of a Thanksgiving meal.