J. Barry Bates of Tappahannock is elected to a second three-year term on the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Board of Directors. The cattle and grain producerwill represent Farm Bureau producer members in Caroline, Essex, Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland, Richmond and Westmoreland counties. Bates has been a Farm Bureau member for 23 years and chairs the Soybean & Feed Grains Advisory Committee and serves on the Livestock Advisory Committee.