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Avian flu is on the minds of poultry farmers, backyard chicken owners, on Real Virginia
Featured this month on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program: • Recent East Coast outbreaks of avian influenza have commercial poultry producers and backyard chicken owners on high alert. • The Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom Teacher of the Year explains how she incorporates agriculture into her lessons. • Caring for crab apple trees is examined on the In the Garden segment. Real Virginia airs nationwide at 3:30 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month on RFD-TV on Dish Network and DirecTV, and on selected cable outlets around the state. It airs weekly on WBRA digital channel 15.2, WHRO Norfolk, WVVA Bluefield and WTKR Norfolk, and on the first and third weekends of each month on WVIR Charlottesville, WHSV Harrisonburg and WRLH Richmond. Watch Real Virginia anytime online at youtube.com/user/ VirginiaFarmBureau.
YOUNG FARMERS
120 That’s how many young farmers from across the state gathered in Virginia Beach for the 2022 Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers Winter Expo: Reboot on the Beach. See related story on page 14.
Top membership counties for 2022 as of March 18, 2022*
County Farm Bureau
Members
Washington
2,097
Charles City-James CityNew Kent-York
1,975
Hanover
1,924
Bedford
1,821
Franklin
1,820
Smyth
1,735
Augusta
1,722
Tazewell
1,620
Russell
1,558
Rockingham
1,534
County Farm Bureau
Percentage of goal
Fluvanna
77.24
Southampton
74.87
Floyd
74.37
Charlotte
74.03
Rockbridge
73.56
Pulaski
73.55
Lunenburg
73.46
Greensville
72.95
Rappahannock
72.50
Henry
72.36
County Farm Bureau
Floyd
Member retention rate 73.12
Fluvanna
73.02
Charlotte
72.98
Southampton
72.94
Pulaski
72.83
Lunenburg
72.26
Greensville
71.87
Rockbridge
71.54
Frederick
70.51
Smyth
69.98
vafb.com / APRIL 2022
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