The Rappahannock Record, a weekly newspaper based in Kilmarnock, was recognized Dec. 3 with Virginia Farm Bureau Federation’s 2024 Ishee-Quann Award for Media Excellence, the top honor in Farm Bureau’s annual Journalism Award program.

Established in 1916, the Record covers Lancaster County and parts of Northumberland, Richmond and Middlesex counties. Its agricultural coverage in the past year has included farm and aquaculture operation profiles in a spring “Farm and Bay to Table” section; a tour of a Westmoreland County farm by agribusiness leaders from nine Eurasian countries; a nine-acre farm operated by the Tides Inn to supply its restaurant; and regular reminders about farmers market days in the region.

The Ishee-Quann Award was first presented in 2009 and is named in part for Jeff Ishee, president of On the Farm Radio and a past recipient of numerous VFBF Journalism Awards for work in radio and television, and online.

Reporter AnnGardner Eubank accepted the award on behalf of the Rappahannock Record’s news staff. The Record also scored an 18th consecutive win in the award program’s weekly newspaper category.