Wayne F. Pryor President

Goochland County beef and grain producer Wayne F. Pryor of Hadensville was re-elected to a second term as president of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation in December 2008.

Pryor served as Farm Bureau’s vice president from December 1998 through November 2006 and has been a member of the organization’s board of directors since 1988.

He currently serves on the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He also is a member of the AFBF Trade Advisory Committee.

Pryor serves on the board of Mississippi-based Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co. and the Southern Farm Bureau Audit Committee. He also is a member of the Chicago-based American Agricultural Insurance Co. board.

In Virginia, he is a member of the VFBF National Affairs Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture, Innovation and Rural Sustainability; Virginia AgPAC; and the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom.

Pryor is a member of Virginia Tech’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Advisory Committee. He was appointed as a trustee of the Center for Rural Virginia by Del. William J. Howell, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.

He is a member of the Virginia Agribusiness Council, the Goochland Forum Club and the Virginia Cooperative Extension Leadership Council.

He also has served on the Goochland County Farm Services Administration Committee. He is a lifelong member of the Volunteer Fire-Rescue Association of Goochland County, serving actively for 25 years, six of those as captain.

Pryor attended Richmond Professional Institute, now Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a Mason and past master of Cabell Lodge #328. He also is an elder and lifelong member of Forest Grove Christian Church, where he has served as chairman of the board.

He and his wife, Pattie, have one son, Stephen Ross.