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Fruit Growers Association to close after 80 years
Oct 3, 2025

Fruit Growers Association to close after 80 years

The Frederick County Fruit Growers Association, which was founded in 1945 to support the area’s orchardists, is dissolving.

Brad Cornelius, CEO of Farm Credit of the Virginias. Photo courtesy Farm Credit of the Virginias
May 1, 2025

Farm Credit of Virginias CEO to retire

Brad Cornelius will retire in late 2025 after leading Farm Credit of the Virginias for five years. He grew the cooperative's loan portfolio to $2.3B and 12,500 customer-owners.

Broadband aid
Jul 30, 2024

Broadband aid

A couple of Holstein cows poke their heads through the metal gates of the barn as Mark Sowers fiddles with one of his most important pieces of farm equipment — a smartphone. Sowers opens an app on his phone that gives him real-time information from the nearly 300 milking cows that roam Huckleberry Dairy, the […]

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