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Virginia middle-schooler’s FFA chicken project aided by parents, ag teacher
December 2024 by Alicia Wells, Delmarva Farmer RINER, Va. — Conner Davis, 13, has been raising layer chickens for the past six years and is an active member of the Auburn Middle School FFA program. Davis started by raising six Blue Sapphire and Australorp chickens...
JMU Professor Links Pollution, Lightning
September 2024 by Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury James Madison University professor Mace Bentley had a friend living on the Eastside of Atlanta who noticed his VCRs and TVs going on the fritz after several lightning strikes during thunderstorms that would move west...
U.S. Electric Vehicle Market Growing
August 2024 story courtesy of CFC News The U.S. electric vehicle (EV) market saw significant growth in the second quarter of 2024. Total EV sales reached an estimated 330,463 units, a 27% increase from the previous quarter, indicating a slight shift toward electric...
Songbird Needs Protection From Sea Level Rise, Group Tells Feds
Center for Biological Diversity petitions to put saltmarsh sparrow on Endangered Species list May 2024 by Charlie Paullin, Virginia Mercury An environmental organization is asking the federal government to list the saltmarsh sparrow, a bird living on wetlands on the...
Maryland Teacher Making Agriculture a Class Act
‘The nice thing about agriculture is it ties into so many careers and it’s personal to every student’ May 2024 by Sean Clougherty Managing Editor, Delmarva Farmer SALISBURY, Md. — When James McCrobie attends the 2024 National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference in...
Forestry Program Purges Hundreds of Virginia Callery Pear Trees
The reckoning has begun for the smelly invader May 2024 by Meghan McIntyre, The Virginia Mercury Both residents and Virginia Department of Forestry officials agree: Callery pear trees, including the much-loathed Bradford pear variety, aren’t just offensive to the nose...
Laying the Groundwork for Safety
April officially proclaimed as Virginia Safe Digging Month April 2024 by Staff Reports Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has issued a proclamation declaring April as Virginia Safe Digging Month. The proclamation serves as a reminder to Virginians to contact Virginia 811...
Virginia is trying to get broadband to 162,000 locations. Old utility poles may get in the way.
Delays in making hundreds of thousands of utility poles ready for high-speed fiber could threaten funding January 2024 by Tad Dickens, Cardinal News Hundreds of thousands of utility poles, hundreds of millions in funding and increasingly tight deadlines are part of...
Doing The Write Thing This Holiday
For 45 years, a public library in Front Royal, Va. has hosted a holiday writing contest that has become a beloved tradition in the local community.