HOT SPRINGS, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – After 18-years of Goochland County farmer Wayne Pryor’s service as President, the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation has elected new leadership. Meeting at The Homestead in Hot Springs, voting delegates Thursday morning elected Scott Sink, who farms in both Franklin and Montgomery counties, as the new President. A Virginia Farm Bureau release says:

“Sink chairs the VFBF National Affairs Committee and is a member of the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation AgPAC Board of Trustees and a board member of the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture, Innovation and Rural Sustainability. He has served as VFBF vice president since 2012, and is past chair of the VFBF Young Farmers Committee and a past board member of the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom.
Additionally, he is a past president of Franklin County Farm Bureau.
Sink also is a member of the American Farm Bureau Federation Federal Deficit Task Force and a past vice chair of the AFBF Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee.
He and his wife, Mendy, were the 2010 recipients of the AFBF Excellence in Agriculture Award. They operate SES Agricultural Enterprises, which produces beef cattle and hay, and provides agricultural services and agritourism opportunities. They also own Hethwood Market in Blacksburg, where they sell locally grown produce and offer catering services. Sink holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agricultural economics from Virginia Tech.”

Prior chose not to run for reelection.
On the Farm Radio’s Jeff Ishee spoke with Sink who says one of his top priorities is bringing more young people into agriculture, just as he started young and went to his first VABF convention when he was 22.
Click here for VABF’s full release and other convention information.