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

• Discover how farm dogs play an essential role on some Virginia farms.
• Learn how Virginia farmers and rural landowners find themselves at the forefront of a challenging balancing act.
• Learn about an innovative drone that could transform how farmers monitor and manage their fields.
• Explore fava bean production in Virginia.

January’s first episode premiered Jan. 15 on the Real Virginia YouTube channel. Stories from the second episode will become available over the following two weeks, and the full episode will be available on YouTube Jan. 30.

Real Virginia airs nationwide at 5 p.m. on the first and third Saturdays of each month in the Voices of Agriculture program 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, the WHRO World Channel, WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third Sundays of each month at 10 a.m. on WVIR Charlottesville and at 10:30 a.m. on WHSV Harrisonburg; and on the first and third Saturdays at 8 a.m. on WRLH Richmond and at 5:30 a.m. on WSLS Roanoke.