Conferences

We would like to thank you again for your sponsorship of past Virginia Forage and Grassland Council (VFGC) winter forage conferences. Our 2025 winter forage conferences are scheduled for the following dates: January 28 – Wytheville, January 29 – Blackstone, January 30 – Warrenton, and January 31 – Weyers Cave.  The theme for this year’s educational conferences is Making and […]

Join VFGC for an in-depth look making, buying, and using quality hay and baleage. Featured speakers include Chris Teutsch, Extension forage specialist with University of Kentucky, and Jessica Williamson, hay and forage specialist for Massey Ferguson, as well as local producer speakers from each conference location. Topics to be discussed include: Updated hay economics Using hay to grow grass, when […]

broadvisiongroup.com Please contact John Fike at jfike@vt.edu or Gabriel Pent at gpent@vt.edu regarding these events. Are you interested in starting a pasture-finished beef operation or improving your existing forage-finished beef operation? If so, consider attending one of the upcoming Pasture-Finished Beef Production Meetings held at three convenient locations around Virginia. These workshops are part of a collaborative effort between Virginia […]

The grazing demonstration hosted at Ronnie Nuckols Farm as part of the Conservation Innovation Grant between VFGC and USDA-NRCS is now complete. The detailed case study summary report titled: Using Annual Forages and Improved Grazing Management to Build Soil Health and Improve System Performance, is available for download as a PDF document below. This report details how Ronnie collaborated with […]

Bellevue Farm Charles and Robert Drumheller Bellevue Farm was honored by the Virginia Forage and Grassland Council (VFGC) as the 2018 Outstanding Forage Producer of the Year. The farm is located in Swoope, within the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. It is owned and operated by Charles and Robert Drumheller, whose family has owned the farm since the mid-1900s. Charles took […]

Join us at Swallow Hill Farm in Caroline County, Virginia on Thursday, April 14, 2016. Tim and Susan Tobin are hosting this field day as VFGC partners with the local Extension, SWCD and NRCS employees to conduct this forage and grazing event. The program will highlight how Tim is using specific forage species (annuals and perennials) to meet his production […]