{"id":14154,"date":"2016-08-26T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=14154"},"modified":"2016-08-26T07:30:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T11:30:23","slug":"beaver-county-conservation-district-holds-soil-health-and-cover-crop-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=14154","title":{"rendered":"Beaver County Conservation District Holds Soil Health and Cover Crop Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14155\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14155\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pacd.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BeaverSoilHeatlh-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"District Conservationist Andy Gaver digs into a hay field and discusses what healthy soil should look and feel like. Photo submitted by Beaver County Conservation District. \" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BeaverSoilHeatlh-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BeaverSoilHeatlh-768x632.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BeaverSoilHeatlh-1024x843.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BeaverSoilHeatlh.jpg 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">District Conservationist Andy Gaver digs into a hay field and discusses what healthy soil should look and feel like. Photo submitted by Beaver County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\n\nFourteen farmers spent the evening learning about soil health and cover crops at Fischer\u2019s Windy Ridge Dairy in Fombell, Beaver County, on August 12, 2016. The event was hosted by Andy Gaver, District Conservationist at USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and Jeff Leindecker, Agriculture Conservationist at Beaver County Conservation District.\n\nAfter a soil health demonstration, attendees were taken to a perennial hay field to see what healthy soil looks like. Several holes were dug and plant\/root clumps were passed around for observation. \u201cHealthy soil aggregates should resemble cottage cheese,\u201d commented Andy Gaver. Once attendees had a good feel for healthy soil, the group moved to a 5 acre long-season multi-species cover crop. The field had a history of heavy tillage and the surface soil structure was completely degraded. After two months in cover, improved soil aggregate stability was observed and rainfall infiltration saw an inch of simulated rainfall infiltrate in less than two minutes. Before planting the cover crop, it took more than ten minutes for an inch of simulated rainfall to infiltrate.\n\nFinancial and other support for this field day provided by: Fischer\u2019s Windy Ridge Dairy, Deerfield Farms Service, Inc., Progressive Dairy Systems, King\u2019s AgriSeeds, Beaver County Conservation District, and USDA \u2013 Natural Resources Conservation Service.\n\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen farmers spent the evening learning about soil health and cover crops at Fischer\u2019s Windy Ridge Dairy in Fombell, Beaver County, on August 12, 2016. The event was hosted by Andy Gaver, District Conservationist at USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and Jeff Leindecker, Agriculture Conservationist at Beaver County Conservation District. After a soil health demonstration, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}