August 2009

Shenandoah County farmer elected to Farm Bureau board

Peter A. Truban, a cattle and grain producer from Woodstock, was elected to the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation board of directors May 20. He will represent Farm Bureau producer members in the counties of Clarke, Frederick, Loudoun, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah and Warren.

Truban will serve the remainder of a three-year term held by the late John R. Zirkle Sr. of New Market, who died April 8.

Truban operates his family’s farm, Jadwyn Acres Inc., a 300-head cattle operation. He also grows small grains, hay and corn. He has been involved with Farm Bureau for more than 25 years and is a past president and current vice president of Shenandoah County Farm Bureau.

Truban is a county committee member of the Shenandoah and Northern Counties Farm Service Agency and has served on Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Advisory Committee.