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RICHMOND - A $25 million budget amendment from Delegate Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, aims to fund an Advanced Manufacturing Apprentice Academy Center in Prince George County.

 

The AMAAC "will train students in advanced technology areas that are in high demand, high paying fields such as advanced manufacturing, data analytics, bioscience and information technology," Cox said in a statement Thursday. Aside from the AMAAC's main location, there will be four regional centers to be located in Southside and Southwest Virginia. 

Virginia farmers plant more cotton, peanuts, and tobacco this year

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Virginia farmers have planted more acres of cotton, peanuts and tobacco this year compared with 2013.

 

But farmers have planted the same amount of soybeans as last year even as the U.S. crop has swelled to its largest on record.

 

Soybean producers in Virginia planted 600,000 acres, according to a report released on Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.