{"id":15706,"date":"2017-07-14T19:11:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=15706"},"modified":"2017-07-14T19:11:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T19:11:17","slug":"soil-health-tour-of-hershey-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=15706","title":{"rendered":"Soil Health Tour of Hershey Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15707\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HersheyFarms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15707\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HersheyFarms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist Joe Kraft shows the group the soil from a cover crop field.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>During the PACD\/SCC Joint Annual Conference, a soil health tour was held. The group visited Hershey Farms in Elizabethtown, PA. The farm is owned by Jim Hershey, President of the No-Till Alliance of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\r\n<p>The tour was led by Joe Kraft, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) State Soil Scientist. Joe highlighted cover cropping, interseeding, and no-till as methods to encourage and maintain soil health. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>PACD and the SCC would like to extend special thanks to Jim Hershey and NRCS for making this tour possible.<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pacd\/albums\/72157683992685890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to see photos of the tour.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the PACD\/SCC Joint Annual Conference, a soil health tour was held. The group visited Hershey Farms in Elizabethtown, PA. The farm is owned by Jim Hershey, President of the No-Till Alliance of Pennsylvania. The tour was led by Joe Kraft, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) State Soil Scientist. Joe highlighted cover cropping, interseeding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}