
No kidding: Virginia goat numbers increase alongside growing demand
Goat meat and other goat-derived products are growing in popularity in the U.S., and as the market emerges, Virginia farmers have positioned themselves to help meet that demand.

Goat meat and other goat-derived products are growing in popularity in the U.S., and as the market emerges, Virginia farmers have positioned themselves to help meet that demand.

Dr. Melinda Burrell, long-time Democratic activist and researcher, and Greg Schumacher, retired Army Major General and Chairman, Fauquier County Republican Committee, aren’t supposed to be able to have civil conversations.

The Virginia Senate voted 21-19, along party lines, to decline to take up the nomination of controversial former Trump administration EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to serve as Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources.

China poses the most significant foreign challenge to the United States in the 21st century.

The Biden administration recently appointed Dr. Ronald Howell Jr. as the new State Executive Director for the USDA Virginia Farm Service Agency.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision Thursday finding that Mountain Valley Pipeline construction jeopardizes endangered and threatened species.

Belize has been dealing with a serious border dispute with Guatemala that goes back decades.

Bitcoin is by far the most popular type of cryptocurrency. As such, many people have only recently learned that bitcoin mining requires an incredible amount of energy.

Prioritizing salads is indeed a step forward, as meat and animal products lead to pollution and the production of greenhouse gasses that trap heat in the atmosphere and lead to global warming.

We have grown numb to the world resting on a razor’s edge of destruction. Climate catastrophe, pandemics, cyberwar and endless wars seem “normal” by now.
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