{"id":24843,"date":"2023-02-17T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=24843"},"modified":"2023-02-17T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T12:54:27","slug":"juniata-county-conservation-district-holds-soil-health-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=24843","title":{"rendered":"Juniata County Conservation District Holds Soil Health Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24844\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JuniataSoilWorkshop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24844\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24844\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JuniataSoilWorkshop-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JuniataSoilWorkshop-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JuniataSoilWorkshop.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Heather Karsten, Associate Professor for Penn State University&#8217;s Department of Plant Science, reviews the results of a manure injection study. The workshop was held at Reinford Farms, Mifflintown.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Juniata County Conservation District held two soil health workshops. The first workshop was held at Chip Spatz&#8217;s Farm in Richfield on October 13, 2022.\u00a0 Twenty-eight people attended the workshop. The highlight of this workshop was the opportunity to view an actively growing multi-species cover crop mix.<\/p>\r\n<p>The second workshop was held on February 1, 2023, in Mifflintown. Thirty-two people attended. Attendees discussed the cost-effectiveness and benefits of soil health to production and water quality and the importance of soil health best management practices.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/epa_logo-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24845 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/epa_logo-2-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/epa_logo-2-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/epa_logo-2-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 82px) 100vw, 82px\" \/><\/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>Juniata County Conservation District held two soil health workshops. The first workshop was held at Chip Spatz&#8217;s Farm in Richfield on October 13, 2022.\u00a0 Twenty-eight people attended the workshop. The highlight of this workshop was the opportunity to view an actively growing multi-species cover crop mix. The second workshop was held on February 1, 2023, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24843","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\/24843","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=24843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}