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Albemarle County farmer re-elected to Farm Bureau board
Beef and wine grape producer H. Carl Tinder Sr. of Earlysville was re-elected Dec. 2 to a second three-year term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors.
Elections of officers and directors were held at the organization’s 2009 Annual Convention in Richmond.
Tinder chairs the VFBF Livestock Advisory Committee, is vice chairman of the Wine Grape Advisory Committee and serves on the Emerging Agriculture Enterprise Advisory Committee. As a member of the board of directors he will represent Farm Bureau producer members in Albemarle, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Hanover, Henrico and Louisa counties.
Tinder and his wife, Lacy, own The Homeplace Vineyard and a 120-head cow-calf herd. He also manages Adventure Farm LLC, which consists of a 500-head cow-calf herd, a small meat goat herd and a vineyard. The 1995 Virginia Tech graduate holds a degree in animal science.
With nearly 150,000 members in 88 county Farm Bureaus, VFBF is Virginia’s largest farmers’ advocacy group. Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, nonpartisan, voluntary organization committed to protecting Virginia’s farms and ensuring a safe, fresh and locally grown food supply.
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