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Our primary contact info: Studio and office - (540) 363-3938
On the Farm Radio P.O. Box 137 Mount Sidney, VA 24467
Jeff Ishee, Executive Producer and host Jeff Ishee is Farm Director for WSVA radio in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The station was ranked # 1 in the nation by Arbitron in the "News/Talk" format in 2000 and 2001.
He is also the host and producer of Virginia's only weekly farm television show. "Virginia Farming" is broadcast by WVPT in at least 60 counties in Virginia, West Virginia and the entire District of Columbia metro area. Beginning in May, 2004, the show is also broadcast three times weekly nationwide via satellite on RFD-TV . Ishee served as VP of the Virginia Farmers Direct Marketing Association and is actively involved in farmers’ marketing. He has consulted with numerous organizations across the nation on issues relating to public farmers’ markets and has also served on the Environmental Awards Selection Committee of the VA Poultry Federation. He is a columnist for Virginia Gardener magazine as well as the Daily News Leader in Staunton, where he writes on topics relating to vegetable gardening. Ishee wrote and self-published his first book in 1997entitled "Dynamic Farmers’ Marketing: A Guide to Successfully Selling Your Farmers’ Market Products." Ishee has received numerous awards including the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation’s Agriculture Journalism Award for Broadcasting (radio category) for the past six consecutive years as well as the television and Internet category from 2003-2006. He also received an Honorary State FFA Degree from the Future Farmers of America in 2000.
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Ishee produces and broadcasts hundreds of "Agribusiness" segments each year for listeners of
"On the
Farm" Radio in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
and North Carolina.
Farm broadcaster honored with award -
(2007) Jeff Ishee, host and producer of
"On the Farm" Radio and "Virginia Farming" Television has been recognized
for his efforts to bring research-based information from Virginia
Cooperative Extension to 2.5 million radio listeners and into more than 28
million homes through Public TV and RFD-TV. Officials say that, based on
advertising and sponsorship rates, the dollar value of the radio and
television airtime he contributes to Extension is estimated to be
approximately $26,000 per week or $1.3 million annually.”