Meet The Voice
Jeff Ishee
President, On The Farm Radio
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Jeff Ishee produces and broadcasts hundreds of "Agribusiness" segments each year for listeners of "On the Farm" Radio in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, New York, Vermont, Michigan, South Carolina and North Carolina. He also produces an exclusive farm report daily for Christian network Joy FM, Allegheny Mountain Radio in Virginia and West Virginia, as well as for WSVA in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Ishee is the creator and inaugural host/producer of the weekly television program "Virginia Farming," broadcast throughout Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia on PBS affiliate VPM. The show is broadcast nationwide weekly via cable and satellite on RFD-TV and is now available in more than 40 million homes nationwide. The Virginia Association of Broadcasters named Virginia Farming TV as the state's “Outstanding News Series" in 2007 and 2008.
Ishee also worked five years as Gen. Mgr. of the Rockingham County Fair, widely recognized as one of the top agricultural Fairs in North America. Ishee served as VP of the Virginia Farmers Direct Marketing Association and has been actively involved in farmers’ marketing. Ishee also served on the Board of Directors for Massanutten Technical Center Foundation, Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom, Happy Birthday America, and on the Environmental Awards Selection Committee of the VA Poultry Federation. He is currently a member of the Agriculture Advisory Committee for Blue Ridge Community College.
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He was a long-time columnist for the News Leader in Staunton, where he wrote about 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." His latest book (2023) is a novel entitled "Two Sacks - One Family's Journey from Swiss Germany to America in 1803 - 1805."
Ishee has received numerous awards including the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation’s Agriculture Journalism Award for Broadcasting (radio category) for six consecutive years as well as the television and Internet category. In 2009, Virginia Farm Bureau announced that future winners will be recipients of the "Ishee/Quann Award for Media Excellence." This new award honors Ishee and the late Homer Quann for their many years of service to the industry of agriculture in Virginia. Ishee also received an Honorary State Degree from Virginia FFA.
