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QR code for tobacco tool for growers

Tobacco Build-Your-Own Budget Webtool: The webtool allows growers to create a customized enterprise budget by entering their field size, expected yield, contract price, and their own production costs. Users can adjust costs for plants, fertilizer, chemicals, labor, machinery, and other inputs to reflect their operation. The tool then calculates total variable and fixed costs, net returns, breakeven price and yield, and lets users explore how changes in yields or prices affect profitability. >> Scan QR code or click here to view webtool

Southern Ag today

Defining Harm. Proposed Changes for the Endangered Species

By: Jennifer Friedel, Associate Professor of Practice and Director of the VA Land Use-Value Assessment Program >> Read article

PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS: Choose your interests

Patterns in Food Import Refusals Highlight Most Frequently Detected Problems

Strict Standards Nearly Eliminate Salmonella from Ground Beef Supplied to Schools

Animal Welfare Standards and Marketing

How does the Food Safety Modernization Act Affect Farms and Food Marketing Firms?

On-Farm Energy Management and Renewable Energy

The American Rescue Plan: Farms, Food, and Families

GMO, Bioengineered Labeling, and Non-GMO Food

Economics of Farm and Agribusiness Sustainability

Corporate Social Responsibility as a Business Strategy

Food safety, reputation, and regulation

Shaming, stringency, and shirking: Evidence from food-safety inspections

Patterns in Food Import Refusals Highlight Most Frequently Detected Problems

Strict Standards Nearly Eliminate Salmonella from Ground Beef Supplied to Schools

How does the Food Safety Modernization Act Affect Farms and Food Marketing Firms?

Animal Welfare Standards and Marketing

New State Law Prohibits Sale Of Farmland To Foreign Adversaries

On-Farm Energy Management and Renewable Energy

Federal Nutrition and Organic Labels Paved the Way for Single-Trait Label Claims

GMO, Bioengineered Labeling, and Non-GMO Food

Price and Welfare Effects of the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule

Farm Financial Risk Management Series Part III: Introduction to Farm Planning Budgets

Farm Financial Risk Management Series Part II: Introduction to Farm Financial Statements

Farm Financial Risk Management Series Part I: Overview of Financial Systems for New and Beginning Farmers

Risk Management and Crop Insurance

Economics of Farm and Agribusiness Sustainability

Corporate Social Responsibility as a Business Strategy

Using Online Panels to Inform Extension Programming

COVID-19 Resources for Virginia Farmers, Agribusinesses and Co-operative Extension Agents and Specialists

Resource productivity and costs of aquaculture practices: Economic-sustainability perspectives from US catfish farming

Cormorant Predation of Commercial Catfish Aquaculture in the Mississippi Delta
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/AAEC/AAEC-231/AAEC-231.html

The Problems of Avian Predators on Fish Farms: Scaup on Baitfish (Golden Shiner) Farms. AAEC-191. Virginia Cooperative Extension. July 8, 2019.
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/AAEC/aaec-191/AAEC-191.pdf

Overview of Good Aquaculture Practices. Virginia Cooperative Extension. 600-054 (CNRE-40P). December 20, 2018. https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/600/600-054/600-054.html

National Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-219/AREC-219.html

South East Region Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-222.html

South Central Region Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-221.html

Great Lakes Region Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-220.html

Wisconsin Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-218.html

Pennsylvania Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-217.html

Ohio Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-216.html

North Carolina Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-215.html

New York Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-214.html

Florida, Illinois, Texas, and Kansas Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-213.html

Arkansas Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-212.html

Alabama Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-211.html

Costs of Regulations on Baitfish/Sportfish Farms: What will it be for trout? https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-202/AREC-202.html

Resource productivity and costs of aquaculture practices: Economic-sustainability perspectives from US catfish farming

Cormorant Predation of Commercial Catfish Aquaculture in the Mississippi Delta
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/AAEC/AAEC-231/AAEC-231.html

The Problems of Avian Predators on Fish Farms: Scaup on Baitfish (Golden Shiner) Farms. AAEC-191. Virginia Cooperative Extension. July 8, 2019.
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/AAEC/aaec-191/AAEC-191.pdf

Overview of Good Aquaculture Practices. Virginia Cooperative Extension. 600-054 (CNRE-40P). December 20, 2018. https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/600/600-054/600-054.html

National Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-219/AREC-219.html

South East Region Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-222.html

South Central Region Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-221.html

Great Lakes Region Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-220.html

Wisconsin Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-218.html

Pennsylvania Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-217.html

Ohio Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-216.html

North Carolina Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-215.html

New York Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-214.html

Florida, Illinois, Texas, and Kansas Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-213.html

Arkansas Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-212.html

Alabama Baitfish and Sportfish Regulatory Costs http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-220/AREC-211.html

Costs of Regulations on Baitfish/Sportfish Farms: What will it be for trout? https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-202/AREC-202.html

Resources

2026-2027 Extension and Outreach Committee:

To advance agriculture, the environment, human health and well-being, and communities through the conducting and dissemination of research and educational activities.

  • Shourish Chakravarty
  • Jen Friedel
  • Man Li
  • Clint Neill
  • Mario Ortez (Chair)
  • Jonathan van Senten
  • Melissa Vidmar

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