Dale Hawkins, a representative for a crop insurance company, checks into the Hampton Inn in Fishersville on Wednesday night. Hawkins is participating in the Virginia Farm Show at Augusta Expo which opened Thursday and ends Saturday.
Virginia's second-biggest agricultural county is playing host to a statewide farm show this week. Augusta Expo in Fishersville is the site of the annual Virginia Farm Show.
BRISTOL - Certified organic vegetables, fruits, flowers, medicinal herbs and more fresh from Lancaster County will be available beginning this spring at the Silver Lake Nature Center in Bristol.
Allowing Sunday hunting would create a lose-lose situation for Virginia citizens, and the state’s largest farm advocacy group, the Virginia Farm Bureau, continues to oppose it.
A historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents, providing new information for today's descendants in a first-of-its-kind online database, society officials say.
Loading Photo Galleries ... A patron walks past a new John Deere tractor on Thursday during the Virginia Farm Show at Augusta Expo in Fishersville. / Pat Jarrett/The News Leader
35 cases of illness tied to Pa. farm's raw milk (AP) — Pennsylvania health officials say the number of people stricken with illness after consuming raw milk from the same dairy has risen to 35 in four states. The confirmed cases of campylobacter bacterial infection include 28 people in Pennsylvania, four in Maryland, two in West Virginia, and one in New Jersey.
