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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Nitisha Aryal

Location: Harrisonburg Branch Job Title: Associate Business Analyst Tenure: 3 years Tell us about your family. I recently got married to my longtime boyfriend, and we are excited to start a family of...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Tom Knight

Location: Lewisburg Branch Job Title: Loan Officer Tenure: 1.5 years Agricultural involvement? I was raised on a beef cattle farm in Lewisburg, WV. I am a former manager of a local Southern States...
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Self-Care & Wellness for Farmers

Every Farmer Struggles

There are a lot of things in life that people should just know, right? For example, it blows my mind that some people think brown cows give chocolate milk. Also, how is it possible that anyone...
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Heart of the Summer-Produce

We are in the heart of summer, which means we are also in the heart of farmer's production of wonderful and nutritious produce!
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Ag & Culture Video Series

Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

Stone House Lavender Farm & Barn (Marion County, WV)

Stone House Lavender includes a working 20-acre lavender farm and farmhouse style event barn. The operation offers an on-site farm store which carries hand-crafted lavender products crafted with pure...
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Farm Management Resources

Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

10 Considerations Before Building a Greenhouse

A greenhouse is a structure that allows you to create an optimum environment for plants and allow those plants to grow outside of their normal season. Greenhouses have been around for hundreds of...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Jason Welch

Location: Roanoke Branch Job Title: Information Systems Specialist Tenure: 3 years Agricultural involvement? I grew up on a small family cattle farm - so farming is near and dear to me. Tell us about...
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Self-Care & Wellness for Farmers

Things I've Learned Along the Way

There are so many things going on in the cattle industry right now, and every single one of them is a concern whether it be markets, weather, regulations, politics, and the list goes on and on. I’ve...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Adam Shiflett

Location: Staunton Admin Office Job Title: Fleet and Facilities Manager Tenure: 21 years FFA involvement? I was very involved in FFA as a kid and competed on the state and national levels. I still...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Megan Bowen

Job Title: Loan Processor Location: Gate City Branch Has anyone in particular in your family had a significant impact on you? My mom has always exemplified strength & overcoming adversity to me. I...
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Agricultural Advocacy

Have a Discussion, Not a Disagreement

Weather, pests, illness, fluctuating prices for fertilizer, seed, feed and every changing supply and demand markets – these are issues that farmers have been dealing with for generations. And each of...
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Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

How to Grow Asparagus

Spring can be associated with many things; flowers, longer days and warmer weather. Spring is also the time of year highly associated with the well-sought after vegetable, asparagus. Asparagus is a...
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Employee Spotlights

Employee Spotlight: Brad Cornelius

Position : Chief Executive Officer Location: Staunton Admin Office Favorite childhood memory? When I was a kid, I went on many fishing trips with my dad on Lake Weiss in Alabama. Still some of my...
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Common Greenhouse Structures

We are nearing early spring and the urge to begin our summer gardens is becoming more prevalent. You may have seed catalogs beginning to show up in your mailbox and you may be sketching out your...
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Young, Beginning, Small & Veteran Farmers

Ag Biz Participants Graduate

All the hours, all the effort, all the conversations and all the brainstorming came to culmination two weeks ago with the virtual Ag Biz Planner Final Conference and Graduation. Farm Credit of the...
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