Henry Wood

District: 9

Counties: Amelia, Appomattox, Buckingham, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Nottoway, Powhatan and Prince Edward

Buckingham County beef and poultry producer Henry E. Wood Jr. of New Canton was re-elected to a third term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors in November 2007.

He has served on the state board since 2003.

Wood chairs the VFBF Emerging Agriculture Enterprises Advisory Committee and Poultry Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Aquaculture Advisory Committee and Membership Services Advisory Committee. He also is on the Virginia AgPAC board of trustees.

He is president of the Buckingham County Farm Bureau.

Wood and his wife, Dixie, own and operate a 750-acre farm, where they raise broiler chickens for Tyson Foods. He is a Mason and past master of Stonewall Lodge and a member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church board of deacons.

He and his family were the 1974 VFBF Young Farm Family award winners.