{"id":17107,"date":"2018-02-23T15:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17107"},"modified":"2018-02-23T15:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:58:35","slug":"jefferson-county-conservation-district-holds-cover-crop-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17107","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson County Conservation District Holds Cover-Crop Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17108\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jefferson-CC-WkspSmaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17108\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17108\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Jefferson-CC-WkspSmaller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Ishman (local farmer and representative of Local Seed Co.) discusses cover crop species and their benefits.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The Cover-Crop Workshop held on February 8, 2018, at the Jefferson County Conservation District (JCCD) educated 48 farmers on the benefits of cover crops, including reducing excess sediment, nutrient, and pesticide runoff through their use. Presentations addressed nonpoint source pollution reduction by use of cover crops, pest control, and soil health, as well as weed control in relation to cover crop use. The workshop was funded by PACD\u2019s Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant Program.<\/p>\r\n<p>As part of the workshop, JCCD produced a presentation titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/N171815-Role-of-Cover-Crops-in-Nonpoint-Source-Pollution.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prevention of Nonpoint Source Pollution Using Cover Crops<\/a>.\u201d The presentation is available on PACD\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?page_id=655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educational Events Sample Materials<\/a> webpage. \u00a0Conservation districts are encouraged to use the materials on this page for their educational events.<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"width: 708.511px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 108px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10296\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 605.511px;\"><em>Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cover-Crop Workshop held on February 8, 2018, at the Jefferson County Conservation District (JCCD) educated 48 farmers on the benefits of cover crops, including reducing excess sediment, nutrient, and pesticide runoff through their use. Presentations addressed nonpoint source pollution reduction by use of cover crops, pest control, and soil health, as well as weed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107","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=17107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}