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Dairy producers asked to participate in Farm Bureau survey

February 9, 2017

The American Farm Bureau Federation and American Farm Bureau Insurance Services have been collaborating to develop a new dairy insurance product and are hosting an online survey to support market research efforts.

Animals and Livestock, Dairy, Insurance, News

Farm group working to find funding for environmental practices

February 2, 2017

If it hadn’t been for state cost-share money, Ronnie Nuckols said, he wouldn’t have been able to install 14 fences to keep his cattle out of streams.

Animals and Livestock, Conservation, Farm Practices, Livestock, News

Farmers, forest landowners can apply for environmental quality incentives

February 2, 2017

Virginia farmers and forest landowners can apply for assistance to protect the health and productivity of their land under the federal Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

Crops, Farm Bill, Forestry, Legislative Issues, News

Farmers fear program loss will be coyotes’, vultures’ gain

February 2, 2017

Chuck Shorter has been fighting to keep coyotes from killing his livestock since at least 1973, “and I’m still fighting them,” he said.

Animals and Livestock, News, Wildlife

Groundshaker star attraction of Hoofprints of History Tours

February 2, 2017

It’s been a long time since Thoroughbred horses have lived at Secretariat’s birthplace at The Meadow Event Park in Caroline County, but things have come full circle.

Meadow Event Park, Meetings and Events, News, Programs, Secretariat

Cherry Clafouti

January 27, 2017

This recipe was prepared by Chef John Maxwell on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program.

Maxwell, a certified executive chef, culinary educator and member of the American Academy of Chefs, shares delicious seasonal recipes in a Real Virginia segment sponsored by Virginia Grown, a program of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Food and Drink, Recipes

Try this recipe for Rosa Parks’ Featherlite Pancakes

January 27, 2017

In 2015 the Library of Congress received and began cataloging the papers of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Along with a 1957 poll tax receipt, postcards from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and documents related to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the collection yielded a recipe, written on the back of an envelope, for peanut butter pancakes.

Food and Drink, Recipes

Grant funding available for Southside vineyard development; additional grapes needed

January 26, 2017

The Virginia Tobacco Commission has awarded a grant to help grow Southern Virginia wineries.

Crops, Grants, News, Programs, Tobacco, Wine Grapes

Virginia cotton production hit more wrinkles in 2016

January 26, 2017

Corn and soybean producers in Virginia managed to have a good year in 2016 despite weather challenges, but cotton growers saw their yields plummet as heavy rain ended the growing season.

Cotton, Crops, News

School system finds flavored milk does a budget good

January 26, 2017

Los Angeles’ public school system is crediting flavored milk with offsetting some of its budget deficit.

Dairy, Economy, News

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