{"id":24449,"date":"2022-11-04T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T12:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=24449"},"modified":"2022-11-04T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T12:31:55","slug":"clarion-forest-and-venango-conservation-districts-partner-for-grazing-field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=24449","title":{"rendered":"Clarion, Forest, and Venango Conservation Districts Partner for Grazing Field Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24450\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ClarionFieldDay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24450\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ClarionFieldDay-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ClarionFieldDay-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ClarionFieldDay.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Havens, Soil Scientist at NRCS in Belmont, NY, demonstrates how to monitor the soil health in a grazing system at the Grazing Field Day held at the Wilson Land &amp; Cattle Co. in Tionesta, PA, on Friday, October 14, 2022.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>On October 14, 2022, approximately one hundred people gathered at the Wilson Land &amp; Cattle Co. in Tionesta for a grazing field day, focusing on &#8220;improving land while lowering costs.&#8221; Clarion Conservation District, Venango Conservation District, and Forest County Conservation District were involved in the event. Russ Wilson, the farm owner, stated, &#8220;It was the best field day that we have had on our farm.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>Participants heard presentations on how to monitor the soil health in a grazing system, the ability of silvopasture and alley cropping to make pastures more profitable, soil health as a climate change solution, and how grazing systems help producers adapt to weather extremes. A rainfall simulator demonstration showed how different management affects the soil\u2019s health and performance under intense rainfall events.<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Clarion-Press-Release-Grazing-Field-Day.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the entire article.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epa_logo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21482 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"83\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 83px) 100vw, 83px\" \/><\/a>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><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 14, 2022, approximately one hundred people gathered at the Wilson Land &amp; Cattle Co. in Tionesta for a grazing field day, focusing on &#8220;improving land while lowering costs.&#8221; Clarion Conservation District, Venango Conservation District, and Forest County Conservation District were involved in the event. Russ Wilson, the farm owner, stated, &#8220;It was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449","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=24449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}