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Virginia Tech soil judging team gets muddy on path to victory

WHITETHORNE — Armed with knives, buckets and their hands, members of a team representing Virginia Tech is getting dirty in the name of their school — and soil.

A group of about two dozen students spend their Friday afternoons during school scouring soil pits around the New River Valley in an effort to prep for competition as Virginia Tech’s championship-winning soil judging team. Read more