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Our primary contact info:
Studio and office - (540) 363-3938
On the Farm Radio P.O. Box 137 Mount Sidney, VA 24467 Jeff Ishee, Executive Producer and host Jeff Ishee is Farm Director for WSVA radio in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The station was ranked # 1 in the nation by Arbitron in the "News/Talk" format in 2000 and 2001.
He is also the host and producer of Virginia's only weekly farm television show. "Virginia Farming" is broadcast by WVPT in at least 80 counties in Virginia, West Virginia and the entire District of Columbia metro area. Since 2004, the show is also broadcast weekly nationwide via satellite on RFD-TV . Ishee served as VP of the Virginia Farmers Direct Marketing Association and is actively involved in farmers’ marketing. He has consulted with numerous organizations across the nation on issues relating to public farmers’ markets and has also served on the Environmental Awards Selection Committee of the VA Poultry Federation. Ishee also serves as a director for the Virginia "Agriculture in the Classroom" program. He has been a columnist for Virginia Gardener magazine as well as the Daily News Leader in Staunton, where he writes on topics relating to vegetable gardening. Ishee wrote and self-published his first book in 1997 entitled "Dynamic Farmers’ Marketing: A Guide to Successfully Selling Your Farmers’ Market Products." Ishee has received numerous awards including the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation’s Agriculture Journalism Award for Broadcasting (radio category) for the past six consecutive years as well as the television and Internet category from 2003-2006. He also received an Honorary State FFA Degree from the Future Farmers of America in 2000. In 2007, Ishee received the "Friend of Extension" Award from Virginia Cooperative Extension. In 2008, the television program Virginia Farming was named "Outstanding News Series" by the Virginia Association of Broadcasters. See story here>> Field reporter Tom Womack
Tom, his wife Barbara, and two daughters live and farm in Middlebrook, Virginia where they raise poultry, cattle, sheep, and vegetables. Visit their farm website here.
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Ishee produces and broadcasts hundreds of "Agribusiness" segments each year for listeners of
"On the
Farm" Radio in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
and North Carolina.
Tom
Womack is a full-time farmer and manages a retail farmers' market in Staunton,
Virginia. He can be reached at (540) 885-8523 or by