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- - Virginia Tech’s SmartFarm Innovation Network will build the farm of the future
    The university is creating the SmartFarm Innovation Network, a decentralized network of interconnected centers across the commonwealth. Virginia Tech’s interdisciplinary researchers and Virginia Cooperative Extension specialists and agents will partner with producers and the commercial sector to develop and deploy a wide array of innovative technologies which will increase overall efficiency, resilience, and sustainability of agricultural and natural resources production systems.
- - Meet the GameChangineers of Mecklenburg County
    A team of teen Virginia 4-H’ers opens up a learning pathway to coding for students in Southern Virginia.
- - Students develop open-source hops dryer design to share with growers everywhere
    A team of mechanical engineering students partnered with researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to develop a low-cost solution to drying hops.
- - David Bevan honored with emeritus status
    Bevan, professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Mapping With Drones workshops offered across Virginia
    This introductory-level workshop is targeted to natural resource professionals, planners, public safety professionals, agricultural operators, educators, and others.
- - Peter Schultz honored with emeritus status
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1985, Schultz served as entomologist and director of the Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Virginia Beach from 1992 to 2017.
- - James Pease honored with emeritus status
    Pease, professor of agricultural and applied economics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been a member of the Virginia Tech community since 1988.
- - Virginia Cooperative Extension to host the 2019 Low-stress Cattle Handling Clinic in May
- - Save Our Towns: Marion’s murals, railroad history up for grabs, and Danville’s dapper downtown
    Danville, Virginia, was characterized in national discourse as a ghost town “left for dead.” But that rhetoric didn’t ring true at City Hall, where leaders saw a different reality unfolding.
- - Students explore South Africa through agriculture
    Virginia Tech students spent a portion of winter break learning firsthand about South Africa as part of a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences study abroad course on food security, wildlife, and conservation.
- - Virginia Tech faculty forge partnerships with peers at the University of São Paulo to tackle global food issues
    During winter break, Virginia Tech and the University of São Paulo held a symposium that brought faculty together to discuss collaborative approaches to address global food issues.
- - Conference sparks further conversations about current U.S. trade climate
    From trade disputes to global demand drivers to biotechnology, attendees at the 11th annual Governor's Conference on Agricultural Trade had much to discuss during and after the event.
- - Agricultural entomology student seeks slug management strategies in the Shenandoah Valley
    One year into a long-term research project, Kirsten Brichler thinks she might be moving toward a familiar conclusion. “I need more data,” Brichler said. “But what I found last year seems to back up what farmers have probably been hearing for the last several years — broadcast, pre-planting insecticides not only don’t inhibit slug populations, they actually encourage their growth.”
- - Virginia 4-H agent Hermon Maclin gives youth a voice for the digital age
    Since 2014, Maclin has served as director of Virginia Youth Voices, a program that enables 4-H youth to tell their stories using video projects, including music videos, skits, and spoken-word poetry.
- - Conference explores ‘Agritourism in Virginia’s New Economy’
    The fifth annual Virginia Agritourism Conference will be held April 3-4 at the Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, Virginia.
- - Save Our Towns shows devastating flood scenes and a city that took charge of its fate
    West Virginia’s floods in 2016 resulted in fatalities and hundreds of destroyed homes. One tiny city picked itself back up after the disaster.
- - Innovation in Greenhouse and Vertical Farming Conference to be held on March 12
    The conference will feature expert perspectives on innovation in the field of controlled environment agriculture (CEA), a tech-driven production approach on the rise in today’s greenhouses, warehouses, and vertical farms.
- - Eleventh annual Virginia Governor’s Conference on Agricultural Trade to focus on shifting trade environment
    The 2019 Virginia Governor's Conference on Agricultural Trade will take place March 5 at the Richmond Mariott. This year will focus on the shifting trade environment and what it means for Virginia products.
- - Graduate student provides inmates with technical training for agricultural work
    Artificial insemination expert Nicholas Wege Dias wanted to give back to many of the inmates and prison farm employees who have assisted him with his research on beef cattle. He did so by delivering a two-day course to prisoners to help prepare them for the workforce.
- - Vibrant Virginia project boosts graduate students’ work in distressed communities
    A team of Virginia Tech graduate students working in two Appalachian communities is underwritten by a new university-wide program.

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