Embroidered patch for Victory Farm Volunteers.

"Many boys and girls are proudly wearing a new emblem on their sweaters this Fall. Look for the big C with the letters VFV in the center. The C indicates that this group is a youth branch of the United States Crop Corps, and the letters VFV stand for Victory Farm Volunteers." Christian Science Monitor, October 14, 1943. From a clipping in the USDA History Collection.

Victory Farm Volunteers, along with the Women's Land Army and other programs, was run by Federal and State extension services during World War II to help meet the need for emergency farm labor. VFV "was primarily for the nation's youth; it employed high school and college students during summer vacations. In some areas, vacation periods were adjusted to coincide with periods of greatest need for seasonal labor." Gladys Baker et al. Century of Service: The first 100 years of the United States Department of Agriculture. (Washington: 1963), p. 310.

This patch was found in a collection of reports on the program. The actual patch is approximately 3 inches (7.5 cm.) in diameter.

VFV Patch.
Series I.2, Documentary Files, 1939-1949, Box 1.2/7, file "III B1b(5)(b) Victory Farm Volunteers, "Handbook of Materials," Chapter 1-Names and Addresses. 1943." USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

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