Charles W. Curry is President of Shady Grove Farm, LLC located in Augusta County near Parnassus. As a youth Charles was active in 4-H and FFA activities and purchased his first registered Angus show heifer from G. Dayton Hodges at Arbor Hill Farm in 1955 when he was nine years old to show at the Market Animal Show. He continued to purchase show heifers form Fred and Jimmy Carter, Pete Myers, Glen Yount and others breeders and established a small registered herd of about 15 cows by the time he graduated from high school and enrolled in the Agricultural Education program at Virginia Tech. The SGF herd now consists of more than 100 head of registered Angus brood cows and the Curry family sell breeding bulls and cows to farmers throughout the Shenandoah Valley and beyond.