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More than 161,000 sandwiches can be made with the peanut butter recently donated to the Federation of Virginia Food Banks.

Virginia farms avoid destruction from Tropical Storm Elsa Published Friday, Jul. 16, 2021, 12:05 am Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© mdesigner125 – stock.adobe.com) Farmers in Virginia’s coastal plain and Piedmont regions largely avoided damaging weather from Tropical Storm Elsa as it rolled through the state on July 8. Elsa—the first tropical storm to enter Virginia during the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season—produced hea...

Vibrant green peanut fields littered with stark, bare patches are a familiar sight for Southampton County farmer M.L. Everett Jr. The damage to his fields is caused by black bears searching for areas with mature peanuts in loose, sandy soil. They pull up peanuts and “chow down on them like they’re at a buffet,” he said. “They can do a lot of damage,” said Everett, a member of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors. He added that recent black bear damage hasn’t been as bad as the 3 acres he’s lost to bears in the past, but he noticed a new tre...