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Virginia Farm Bureau Grain Marketing key player in supply chain

May 19, 2016

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Virginia’s farmers produced more than half a billion bushels of grain and soybeans between 2006 and 2012. And the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Grain Marketing Division moves millions of those bushels across the state annually.

Crops, Grain, Soybeans, Virginia Farm Bureau

Strawberry crop came in early and strong

May 10, 2016

Pick-your-own and farm market strawberries are ripe and ready!

Berries, Crops

Virginia’s greenhouse industry continues to grow

May 9, 2016

White’s Nursery & Greenhouses Inc. began as a cut flower farm in the 1940s but has since blossomed into 21 acres of greenhouse production and 5 acres of field production.

Crops, Horticulture

Freezing temperatures affect farmers across state

April 14, 2016

There’s risk every spring that a hard freeze will kill tender fruit blossoms. Virginia apple and peach growers are familiar with that risk; most are in mountainous areas in the western part of the state, where cold temperatures linger into spring.

Agriculture Business, Crops

Virginia’s oldest cash crop holding on in a new age

January 28, 2016

It’s been more than a decade since the 2004 tobacco buyout, but the Virginia commodity is still growing strong.

Crops, Tobacco

To prevent timber theft, mark and maintain boundary lines

December 10, 2015

The single most important thing landowners can do to protect timberland is to know their boundary lines and maintain them.

Crops, Forestry

State’s winter wheat production down more than one-fifth

October 16, 2015

Virginia farmers harvested 13.9 million bushels of winter wheat this past summer—22 percent less than in 2014 and 2 percent less than an August forecast.

Agriculture Business, Crops, Economy, Wheat

Heavy rainfall virtually halts fieldwork, damages some Va. crops

October 9, 2015

Although Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Virginia “dodged a bullet” with Hurricane Joaquin, farmers still got hit with crop damage.

Cotton, Crops, Peanuts, Soybeans, Tobacco

Popcorn among Virginia’s more unusual crops

September 24, 2015

Harvest activities are escalating, and along with the traditional corn, soybeans, peanuts and cotton, a few Virginia farmers are bringing in slightly more unusual crops.

Corn, Crops

Harvest of valuable ginseng regulated to protect plant, landowners

September 10, 2015

Virginia’s wild ginseng harvest has begun, and state officials have stepped up regulation of the valuable root.

Agriculture Business, Crops

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