News Release:

Buckingham County farmer
re-elected to Farm Bureau board

Beef and poultry producer Henry E. Wood Jr. of New Canton was elected Nov. 28 to a third three-year term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors. Elections of officers and directors were held during the organization’s 2007 Annual Convention in Chantilly.

Wood chairs the VFBF Poultry Advisory Committee and Emerging Agriculture Enterprises Advisory Committee and serves on the organization’s Membership Services Advisory Committee. As a board member he will represent Farm Bureau producer members in Amelia, Appomattox, Buckingham, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Nottoway, Powhatan and Prince Edward counties.

Wood also is the current president of the Buckingham County Farm Bureau and has served on that organization’s board of directors.

He and his wife, Dixie, own and operate a 750-acre farm where they raise broiler chickens for Tyson Foods and have 150 head of commercial beef cattle and a forestry enterprise. Their family received the 1974 VFBF Young Farm Family Award.

The Woods have three adult children and three grandchildren.

Wood is a Mason and past master of Stonewall Lodge and a member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church board of deacons.

With 148,000 members in 88 county Farm Bureaus, VFBF is Virginia’s largest farm organization. Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, nonpartisan, voluntary organization that supports its members through legislative lobbying, leadership programs, commodity marketing and risk management services, insurance products and other benefits.