Jeannie L. Dudding of Craig County was elected Nov. 29 to a second three-year term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors.

Elections of officers and directors were held during the VFBF 2023 Annual Meeting of Voting Delegates.

As a board member, Dudding will represent Farm Bureau producer members in Alleghany, Bedford, Botetourt, Craig, Franklin, Henry, Patrick and Roanoke counties.

Dudding previously served as a Virginia Cooperative Extension agriculture and natural resources agent in Giles County. She is now the agriculture teacher and FFA adviser at Giles High School.

She currently serves as president of the Craig County Farm Bureau and has served on that organization’s board for the past 17 years. She also chairs the VFBF Equine Advisory Committee.

Additionally, Dudding has been involved with the Craig County Farm Bureau Young Farmers Committee and served as its chair for two years. In 2013 she won the VFBF Young Farmers Discussion Meet, and in 2015 she was named Farm Woman of the Year by the VFBF Women’s Leadership Committee.

She holds a master’s degree in career and technical education from Virginia Tech and bachelor’s degrees in animal science and education from the University of Connecticut.

Dudding and her husband, Jason, have an Angus cow-calf operation. Their two children, Layton and Evie, are active in 4-H and FFA with their own livestock projects.


With almost 135,000 members in 88 county Farm Bureaus, VFBF is Virginia’s largest farmers’ advocacy group. Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, nonpartisan, voluntary organization committed to supporting Virginia’s agriculture industry.

Contact Pam Wiley, vice president of communications, at 804-291-6315.