By the Numbers

HAM

1,000

That’s how many hams are smoked each year at Darden’s Country Store & Smokehouse, one of many attractions on The Salty Southern Route—the state’s pork-and-peanut trail in Southeastern Virginia. See related story, page 20.

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New law governing farm use tags explained on Real Virginia

Featured this month on Real Virginia, Virginia Farm Bureau’s weekly television program: • A new law governing farm use placards will help prevent misuse. • Gleaning produce is one way farmers help those who are less fortunate. • Mecklenburg County and tobacco, its top-ranking agricultural commodity, are featured on this month’s

County Close-up.

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