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in Amelia County on June 18 for a roundtable discussion on issues facing the farm economy as it rebuilds from the COVID-19 crisis. They discussed trade concerns, estate taxes, conservation efforts and vertical integration, with a focus on expanding broadband internet infrastructure.
Vilsack and Spanberger toured Featherstone Farm in Amelia County, a grain crop and seed operation. The farm is operated by Amelia County Farm Bureau members Colin and Robyn Whittington, who explained how they use newly available broadband internet to deploy precision agriculture technology.
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Bisbach s full-time job is working at Featherstone Farm in Rushford, the site in which he also produces the dry beans that he sells. After graduating from college in 2010, Bisbach worked on several organic farms. At the first farm he worked at, the owner gave each apprentice a plot of land where they could grow anything they wanted. The farm didn t grow any dry beans, and so I thought I would do that mainly because I thought that they looked really cool, said Bisbach. So I grew those and then kept doing it year after year, and people would give me different varieties that I would collect and started to accumulate.