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Lunenburg County farmer re-elected to Farm Bureau board

Grain producer Jerry M. Jenkins Jr. of Lunenburg County was re-elected Dec. 2 to a 13th three-year term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors.

Elections of directors were held at the organization’s 2009 Annual Convention in Richmond.

Jenkins chairs the VFBF Flue-Cured Tobacco Advisory Committee and is vice chairman of the organization’s Grain Marketing Advisory Committee. As a member of the board of directors he will represent Farm Bureau producer members in Brunswick, Charlotte, Lunenburg and Mecklenburg counties.

He also is president of Lunenburg County Farm Bureau.
In addition to his Farm Bureau involvement, Jenkins is a member of Virginia’s Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission.

Before he began farming in 1963, Jenkins worked as a Virginia Cooperative Extension agent in Gloucester County and as a teacher in Brunswick and Nottoway counties. He also served as a supervisor of tobacco production in Venezuela for British American Tobacco Co.