Tazewell County cattle producer Emily F. Edmondson was elected Nov. 29 to a sixth 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, Edmondson will represent Farm Bureau producer members in Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell and Wise counties.

She is chair of the VFBF Livestock Advisory Committee and is a member of the Membership Services Advisory Committee.

Edmondson owns and operates Fisher Cove Farm LLC with her son, John Fisher. She has served on the Tazewell County Farm Bureau board of directors and is a past president of that organization.

She is a board member of the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture, Innovation and Rural Sustainability and served on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation AgPAC board of trustees from 2003 to 2005. Additionally, she served on the board of trustees of the Boys Home of Virginia in Covington, and is past chair and a past board member of the Historic Crab Orchard Museum. She also is rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Marion.

Edmondson is married to Keith Everett Edmondson, who owns and operates a farm in Washington County. She has two adult children, John Fisher and Dr. Anne Yearians, who owns and operates Crab Orchard Veterinary Services in Tazewell County and Honaker Animal Health Inc. in Russell County.


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.