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- - 2019 Virginia Farm to Table Conference to be held Dec. 5-6
    If you’re interested in local and regional food and agriculture and want to be inspired to implement values that enhance your business, organization, and community, plan to attend the 2019 Virginia Farm to Table Conference.
- - Six inducted to the Virginia Livestock Hall of Fame
    The Virginia Livestock Hall of Fame celebrated its 10th anniversary and inducted six individuals to its gallery in Blacksburg this fall. This brings the total over the past 10 years to 72 members of the Hall of Fame.
- - Save Our Towns reveals Tazewell’s fire-breathing growth strategy
    The town capitalizes on a new idea for an old road.
- - Fall maintenance tips for drought-stricken lawns
    This summer’s exceptionally dry weather has left many Virginia lawns looking brown. While cool-season turfgrasses (such as Kentucky bluegrass or tall fescue) often revive after a soaking rainfall, a lawn that remains brown may be dead and in need of immediate attention before persistently colder temperatures arrive.
- - Virginia Tech Foundation secures grant funding to build new Virginia Seafood AREC
    The $3 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration will be used to construct a new state-of-the-art Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Hampton, Virginia.
- - Save Our Towns: Fincastle finds its way
    A tiny Virginia town that had remained self-contained since colonial days experiences growing pains.
- - Virginia Tech alumnus Michael McDowell named 2019 Virginia Farmer of the Year
    McDowell has grown three rented acres of farm into an environmentally-conscious, 1,200-acre operation, where he and his family manage a leading Virginia herd of registered Angus cattle.
- - Workforce development key for Virginia’s rural communities, governor says during Virginia Tech visit
    Alan Grant, dean of the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was part of a panel that discussed how technological changes are helping agriculture — the state’s largest private economic sector — remain a driver of rural economies.
- - Ninth annual Hokie BugFest has something for everyone
    Bug-out with the whole family at the ninth annual Hokie BugFest on Oct. 5 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- - Extension and cooperatives hold 43rd annual Forestry and Wildlife Field Tours
    The field tour series, the longest running program of its kind in Virginia, will start on Oct. 11.
- - Beef cattle industry giant to be honored at Virginia Tech
    Gary Minish was one of the first to champion leaner, more heavily muscled, and faster growing cattle over the less profitable, smaller, and fatter cattle of the 1950s and early ‘60s. His influence helped shape the modern beef cattle phenotype, long before the introduction of genomic technology.
- - Tom Brown honored with emeritus status
    As dean of students, Brown led new student orientation programs, family programming, sexual assault education, and multicultural and international programs. He also provided great care and compassion to many Hokies and their families following April 16, 2007.
- - In Senegal, Extension meets 4-H’ers mastering the science, safety, and business of food
    Applying the land-grant higher education model of knowledge-sharing, as practiced by Virginia Tech, the Youth in Agriculture program works closely with agents and specialists from Virginia Cooperative Extension and 4-H.
- - Forest landowners 'retreat' to the woods
    The retreat, designed for beginning woodland owners, will take place Sept. 20-21 near Providence Forge, Virginia.
- - 2019 Kentland Farm Beef and Forage Day to offer latest techniques and practices for producers
    On Sep. 17, Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will host the event, which will highlight current research projects at Kentland Farm, address subjects related to grazing practices and pasture management, and feature a farm tour.
- - Virginia 4-H teens borrow from the brains at Google to teach local kids computer science
    In a new $6 million collaboration between Google and National 4-H, 4-H teens like Terrance Hairston and Cameron Robertson are learning through a “teens as teachers” model to train local kids in computer science skills, and to pass the tools to teach CS on to more 4-H’ers in communities throughout their state.
- - Gabriel Pent named superintendent of Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Research and Extension Center
    Pent brings extensive knowledge of agricultural research and Extension programming.
- - Rick Rudd reappointed Virginia Cooperative Extension Chair of Excellence in Community Viability
    Rudd, professor and head of the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has gained national and international recognition in rural leadership development and viable rural communities.
- - Dini Miller to be inducted into Pest Management Professional Hall of Fame
    During her two decades at Virginia Tech, Miller has focused on tackling new and difficult problems facing urban pest management. Her research has centered on a wide variety of urban pests, including German cockroaches, subterranean termites, fire ants, and bed bugs.
- - Local weather forecasting technology heralds the advent of a SmartFarm network
    Thanks to a new collaboration between the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and weather-intelligence provider WeatherSTEM, local forecasting technologies around the state are helping farmers prepare for and weather the storm.

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