Virginia Cooperative Council

10/03/2025

Big news to kickoff National Cooperative Month! 🎉

We’re thrilled to announce the Virginia Cooperative Council’s 2025 leadership award honorees:

• Career Cooperative Leadership Award – Curry Roberts
A tireless champion for co-ops and longtime Southern States Cooperative board leader-his impact reaches across Virginia’s ag community.

• Young Cooperator Award – Adam Ford
Rockingham Cooperative’s marketing manager, author of The House Cooperation Built, and a proud grad of the Virginia Institute on Cooperative Education.

Help us cheer them on in the comments-drop a 🎊 for Curry and Adam! 👏

Read the full press release:http://www.virginia.coop/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/VCC-awards-25_nz.pdf

09/30/2025

Some great cooperative history here in Virginia!

On this day in cooperative history, Rockingham Cooperative hosts one of the first meetings of the then names Virginia Council of Farmer Cooperatives. Mr. Elmer Kaylor presided over the meeting in 1962 and was a key figure in the organizations early success. Since then the organization is now called the Virginia Cooperative Council, expanding involvement beyond agricultural cooperatives.

05/12/2025

If you know a Virginia under 40 deserving of the cooperative council’s Young cooperator award, please let us know!

Dalton Bennett was in sixth grade, and there was a calf about to be born, but Bennett’s father had recently broken his arm in a car crash, and, well, somebody had to step up.“Put that glove on and I’m going to tell you what to do,” his father said.