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Virginia Cooperative Extension provides resources and educational outreach to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s more than seven million residents in the areas of agriculture and natural resources, family and consumer sciences, community viability, and 4-H youth development.
The Rural Business-Cooperative Service is headed by an Administrator who reports directly to the Under Secretary for Rural Development, who in turn reports to the Secretary of Agriculture. Business & Cooperative Programs staff are headquartered in Washington, D.C., but the Agency has a presence in every state and U.S. territory. [1]
Other early prototypes of the Home demonstration clubs were the reading clubs set up for rural women starting in 1900 in New York. [26] Two women, Marie Cromer and Ella Agnew, started early canning clubs in North Carolina and Virginia respectively. [26] In Texas, Edna Westbrook Trigg worked with the USDA and girls' tomato clubs in 1912. [27]
In 2009, ODEC proposed building a coal plant in Dendron, Virginia. [3] In 2010, ODEC agreed to purchase the output of the Criterion Wind Project under a 20 year contract. [4] Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative was a member of the cooperative until 31 December 2008, when it terminated its contract. [5]
West Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative and Upcountry Fiber to bring internet to nearly 13,000 residents in underserved areas of Anderson County.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen underscored the importance of investing in rural areas during a visit to Fredericksburg, Virginia on Monday to tour a broadband infrastructure project funded ...
A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members. Profits are either reinvested for infrastructure or distributed to members in the form of "patronage" or "capital credits", which are dividends paid on a member's investment in the cooperative.
Village cooperatives are cooperatives in rural areas that are engaged in the provision of community needs with agricultural activities. [1] Village cooperatives may also be defined as an umbrella organization of social and economic character and as a forum for the development of rural economic activities organized by the community and for the community itself.