Tag: West Virginia
West Virginia to receive broadband grant
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding 72 grants totaling $23.6 million through the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Grant Program.
W. Va. receives grant to boost maple industry
The West Virginia Department of Agriculture recently received a $203,716 ACER Access and Development Program grant to build its maple industry.
Satisfaction in growing a seed
The Pumpkin Patch at Valley Bend Farm in Marshall County, West Virginia, is owned by Betty Hickey, a 2017 Women in Agriculture award winner.
Women in Ag event set in W.Va.
The West Virginia University Extension Service’s Women in Agriculture team invites female farmers to the West Virginia Women in Agriculture conference.
Lots of livestock, no veterinarians in West Virginia
WVU Extension Service is working to address the veterinarian access problem across the Mountain State.
A smile for the holidays
West Virginia 4-H club worked together for the holidays to provide a merrier Christmas for 10 students at New Manchester Elementary.
Potomac State introduces new sustainable ag major
Potomac State College of West Virginia University introduced the new Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship (SAGE) major.
West Virginia farm families recover from flood damages
Farmers continue to assess the damage from devastating floods that ravaged parts of West Virginia while many have reached out to help in their time of need.
Life in an old coal town
Sutherland meets a woman from a small mining town in West Virginia like the one she enjoys reading about in a Homer Hickman novel.
Utica and Marcellus shale: May permitting slows again
In Pennsylvania, Greene and Washington Counties led the state with the largest number of permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection.
