Bill Text: VA SJR370 | 2023 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Commending Southern States Cooperative.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-02-24 - Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ370ER) [SJR370 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2023-SJR370-Enrolled.html
WHEREAS, for 100 years, Southern States Cooperative, a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative, has provided products, services, and growing solutions for Virginia farmers; and
WHEREAS, the sobriquet Virginian has for centuries implied a life lived on the land cultivating crops or at least a life informed by the virtues of an agrarian culture; and
WHEREAS, Southern States Cooperative was founded in 1923 as Virginia Seed Service to supply to Virginia farmers seeds suitable for the growing conditions of the Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Virginia Seed Service quickly expanded its endeavors to include feed, fertilizer, and crop protection; wishing to extend its benefits to farmers in surrounding states, Virginia Seed Service assumed its present wide-range of purposes and, in the 1930s, became known as Southern States Cooperative; and
WHEREAS, Southern States Cooperative provides Virginia farmers and rural communities with agronomically sound, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible products and services to enable farmers to produce crops efficiently and to feed livestock well, to the benefit of the Commonwealth, the nation, and, indeed, the world; and
WHEREAS, Southern States Cooperative currently serves its farmer-members in eight states of the South; and
WHEREAS, in cooperation with locally owned cooperatives, Southern States Cooperative operates 34 locations in the Commonwealth and, combined with its central office in Henrico County, employs nearly 750 individuals throughout the Commonwealth; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend Southern States Cooperative for having achieved the notable milestone of 100 years of service to farmers and agribusinesses; and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the Senate prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to Southern States Cooperative as an expression of the General Assembly's admiration for its legacy of contributions to Virginia's farmers and rural communities.
