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Dry fall helps with harvest but not pastureland

  October 13, 2017
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Virginia topsoil moisture levels for the week ending Oct. 6 were approaching drought levels, with 73 percent of the state reporting short water supplies.


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Agriculture Business, Drought, News
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Agriculture Matters grant assists two Loudoun County nonprofits

  October 5, 2017
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The Loudoun County Farm Bureau honored two organizations with a 2017 Agriculture Matters Grant to assist them in promoting or expanding agricultural efforts within the county.


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Agriculture Business, Grants, News, Programs
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VALOR helps farmers improve leadership, communications skills

  October 5, 2017
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A Virginia Tech program is helping Virginia Farm Bureau members improve their leadership and communications skills to support the state’s largest industry.


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Agriculture Business, Meetings and Events, News, Programs
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Farm Bureau: Farmers, ranchers ready for immigration reform

  October 5, 2017
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Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th, received praise this week from the American Farm Bureau Federation for his leadership on legislation that would provide the nation’s farmers and ranchers with access to a legal, stable supply of guestworkers.


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Agriculture Business, Legislative Issues, News
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Virginia cattle exports to Canada continue to increase

  September 28, 2017
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Virginia’s marketing efforts of feeder cattle to Canada have paid off.


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Agriculture Business, Animals and Livestock, Beef, News
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Farmers will begin receiving census in mid-November

  September 28, 2017
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U.S. farmers will begin receiving their questionnaires for the 2017 Census of Agriculture in eight weeks, the National Agricultural Statistics Service announced on Sept. 25.


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Agriculture Business, Legislative Issues, News
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Farm Bureau plays a part in filling your wine glass

  September 27, 2017
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There’s a Virginia wine for every taste and occasion, and Virginia Farm Bureau has supported the industry along the way.


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Agriculture Business, Crops, News, State Fair of Virginia, Wine Grapes
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Truck on over to the state’s largest tractor museum

  September 27, 2017
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Walk into Keystone Tractor Works in Colonial Heights, and you feel like you’ve stepped back in time. The 70,000-square-foot museum has 160 antique tractors in its main showroom, along with an antique tobacco exhibit, antique gas pumps and displays of vintage tools, toy trucks and soda bottles.


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Agriculture Business, Agritourism, News
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Fall harvests progressing; weather presents some corn challenges

  September 21, 2017
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A Sept. 18 crop report prepared by the National Agricultural Statistics Service notes that 56 percent of Virginia’s corn raised for grain and 94 percent of corn raised for silage had been harvested by Sept. 17. That’s in addition to 67 percent of apples and 73 percent of flue-cured tobacco.


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Agriculture Business, News
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Virginia Urban Agriculture Summit set for Oct. 5-6

  September 21, 2017
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The Virginia Urban Agriculture Summit will be held Oct. 5-6 at George Mason University. 


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Agriculture Business, Meetings and Events, News
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