{"id":15805,"date":"2017-08-18T15:32:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=15805"},"modified":"2017-08-18T15:32:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:32:18","slug":"shambaugh-provides-testimony-during-ag-progress-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=15805","title":{"rendered":"Shambaugh Provides Testimony during Ag Progress Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15806\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APDPanel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15806\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15806\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/APDPanel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Shambaugh testifies in front of (left to right) Rick Ebert, PA Farm Bureau President, Congressman G.T. Thompson, Congressman Dwight Evans, and Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding on the state of agriculture in Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>As is their custom, the Pennsylvania House and Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees held a joint informational meeting on August 16, 2017 at Ag Progress Days. The session covered the state&#8217;s contributions to the multi-state effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay. The second hearing was organized by Congressman Thompson and addressed the state of agriculture in Pennsylvania in front of a panel consisting of the PA Farm Bureau President, two congressmen, and the Secretary of Agriculture.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>PACD Executive Director Brenda Shambaugh provided testimony during these two sessions. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/House.Senate-info-meeting-APD-8.2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the text of Shambaugh\u2019s testimony titled, \u201cConservation District Activities within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Barnyard-discussion-testimony-at-APD-8.2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for \u201cBarnyard Discussion: Issues Driving the State of Pennsylvania Agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/476581\/2017\/08\/03\/impact\/ag-progress-days-chance-hear-and-be-heard-policymakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read more about the meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is their custom, the Pennsylvania House and Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees held a joint informational meeting on August 16, 2017 at Ag Progress Days. The session covered the state&#8217;s contributions to the multi-state effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay. The second hearing was organized by Congressman Thompson and addressed the state of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-legislative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805","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=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}