The 2025 Northern Neck SWCD Producer Conference was held on Thursday, March 6, 2025 at the Upper Lancaster Volunteer Fire Department in Lively. This free event is open to all agricultural producers in the Northern Neck and a catered breakfast was provided by Excellent Eats.
We enjoyed a morning full of networking with producers and partners while hearing from speakers on important ag-related topics. Thank you to our wonderful speakers, producers and partners that attended and participated in this conference. We also want to thank all of our sponsors for donating door prizes that we raffled off to conclude the meeting.
The topics and speakers for the 2025 NNSWCD Producer Conference:
- 2025 Virginia Agricultural Cost-Share (VACS) Program Updates by Aaron Saunders (NNSWCD Ag. Conservation Specialist)
- Virginia State University Small Farm Outreach Program by Derrick Gooden (VSU SFOP Assistant)
- Grain Marketing Updates for 2025 by Jayson Gill (Perdue Agribusiness Grain Merchandiser)
- Grain Bin Safety by Calvin Balderson (Northumberland Chief of Emergency Services)
- Local Agency Updates:
- USDA-FSA by Abby Davis
- USDA-NRCS by Lucee Kossler
- Department of Forestry by Ken Sterner
- Northern Neck Land Conservancy by Drew Gladwell
