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By:  Carl C. Stafford Senior Extension Agent Slow but steady wins the race according to Aesop’s fable, a story about the tortoise and the hare.  One would assume the fast hare could easily cross the finish line first, but there is more.  Many interpretations surround this fable and here we can agree that slow and steady leads to progress. This is the rate progress is made at the Carver School on route 15 here in Culpeper, slowly unfolding...

By: Tiffany Patrick Summer Intern, Virginia Cooperative Extension My internship this summer was much more than an internship. Along with all the things I was sent here to do, I learned much more. My main responsibility was data collection in the Variety Trial at Bald Top Brewing Company in Madison, VA. Aside from that, I was also in the Culpeper Extension office doing many different activities, such as forage samples, hay samples, Cloverbub...

By: Carl C. Stafford Senior Extension Agent Internal parasites better known as “worms” are a production efficiency issue with cattle and other grazing livestock. Cattle producers address this performance problem by using de-wormers known as anthelmintics. There are three chemical classes approved for use in cattle and several non-chemical management methods help reduce the impact of worms on cattle. An issue with chemical controls is...

Wheat markets are about to change in Virginia and Culpeper’s Ardent Mills is leading the way. Their new investments in flour milling, for human consumption, has farmers talking about how to meet this new demand for local...