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Domino’s Pizza has bucked the trend of restaurants buying meat from suppliers who shun industry-accepted animal welfare practices.

Farmers’ markets—both retail and wholesale—are booming in Virginia. 

Gov. Bob McDonnell announced on March 13 that the commonwealth exported a record $2.35 billion in agricultural products in 2011, an increase of more than 6 percent from 2010 and more than 2 percent from 2009.

The details of the 2012 farm bill are being ironed out in Congress now, as much of the current law in the 2008 farm bill expires in 2012.

Congress has not given the U.S. Department of Agriculture the money it needs to track the full impact of Colony Collapse Disorder, a problem that’s killing thousands of honey bee colonies each winter.

Farmers and farmers’ market customers have known for years that buying local foods builds relationships and boosts local economies. 

While high-stakes poker players have to worry about what’s in their opponents’ hands, there are only 52 cards in a deck.

Just in time for spring, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an updated Plant Hardiness Zone Map for the country.

Big companies are trying to change the way U.S. farmers operate their businesses, but some things don’t need changing.

Virginia wines are drawing wine professionals and wine enthusiasts alike to the Old Dominion. 

Virginia’s Agriculture in the Classroom program is celebrating its second Agriculture Literacy Week concurrently with National Ag Week, March 4-10. 

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You might have heard that lean beef is back as a healthy food. Now there’s a study to support that.

Virginia’s Farm Link program is a decade old, and Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmers are working to reboot the program and encourage more farmers and would-be farmers to get connected.

Virginia Farm Bureau’s blog, The Real Dirt, is for anyone with an interest in agriculture.

Popular cuts of meat and poultry will be required to have nutritional information on their packaging in the coming year.

Choice cuts of beef such as filet mignon are among the most-shoplifted merchandise in the country, trade publication Adweek reported recently.

Virginia has at least 40 winter farmers’ markets, twice as many as it had in 2010, according to findings of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Virginia Farm Bureau’s monthly television program has a new name and new content. After a decade on the air, Down Home Virginia, is now Real Virginia and features a new chef and a vegetable gardening expert.