Tazewell County cattle producer Emily Fisher Edmondson of Chilhowie has been re-elected to a second three-year term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors. Elections of directors were held Dec.1 at the organization’s annual convention in Norfolk.

As a board member Edmondson will represent Farm Bureau producer members in Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Tazewell and Wise counties.

She chairs the VFBF Emerging Agriculture Enterprises Advisory Committee and is a member of the Burley Tobacco Advisory Committee, Livestock Advisory Committee and Membership Services Advisory Committee.

Edmondson owns and operates Fisher Cove Farm LLC with her son, John Fisher. She has served on the Tazewell County Farm Bureau board of directors for the past 13 years and is a past president of that organization.

She served on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation AgPAC board of trustees from 2003 to 2005 and is a past vice chair and board member of the Historic Crab Orchard Museum. She also is assistant rector of the Tazewell County Cluster of Episcopal Parishes.

Edmondson is married to Keith Everett Edmondson, who owns and operates a farm in Washington County. She has two grown children.

With more than 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