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Chris on June 9th, 2011

Earlier this week, Jennie and I had the opportunity to talk with NBC 12 reporter Sunni Blevins about how farmers and the agricultural industry are increasingly using social media to connect with consumers and tell the agriculture story.  Whether it’s Facebook pages such as the Farmers of Southampton County, which has over 700 followers in [...]

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Chris on May 24th, 2011

“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.“    ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Week 2                                                                                   Week 3 Over the past couple of weeks, the corn has been growing!  The field is transforming from a field full of seedlings into a field full of fast growing corn plants.  [...]

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Chris on May 8th, 2011

“Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.” ~Henri Alain Agtually… It is again the time of year when the warmth of spring beckons the eternal optimism of a farmer to return to the field and place seeds in the ground in [...]

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Chris on May 2nd, 2011

Agtually…  You may have recently seen Jennie and I on television!  That’s right, we were featured in a segment of Down Home Virginia discussing how we are a part of a growing agricultural community that is reaching out to consumers through social media to help put the  face of agriculture on the plate.  In a [...]

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Chris on April 17th, 2011

Each of Virginia’s 47,600 family farmers produces enough food and fiber to feed 155 people in the United States and abroad. These are some of those farmers… Share this:EmailPrintFacebookShareRedditDiggStumbleUpon

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