{"id":25867,"date":"2023-12-08T15:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25867"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:14:37","slug":"clarion-conservation-district-holds-grazing-field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25867","title":{"rendered":"Clarion Conservation District Holds Grazing Field Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25868\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Clarion-Grazing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25868\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25868\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Clarion-Grazing-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Clarion-Grazing-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Clarion-Grazing.png 557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rob Thompson, sheep farmer from Potter County, discussing his successes with improving his forages and reducing the parasite pressures in his 200-ewe flock by implementing a system that includes daily rotations and over 60-day rest periods between grazing events. Photo taken by Lindsay Shapiro from PA Sustainable Agriculture (PASA).<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>On October 20, 2023, ninety-eight farmers and agency employees attended an educational grazing field day titled &#8220;Harvesting Abundance: Sustainability in our Grazing Havens,&#8221; held at the Wilson Land &amp; Cattle Co. in Tionesta, PA.<\/p>\r\n<p>Most attendees plan to implement the conservation practices they learned, including soil health improvement, rotational grazing, biodiversity, and non-point source pollution reduction via cover crop planting with a no-till planter.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24933 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"78\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 78px) 100vw, 78px\" \/><\/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 20, 2023, ninety-eight farmers and agency employees attended an educational grazing field day titled &#8220;Harvesting Abundance: Sustainability in our Grazing Havens,&#8221; held at the Wilson Land &amp; Cattle Co. in Tionesta, PA. Most attendees plan to implement the conservation practices they learned, including soil health improvement, rotational grazing, biodiversity, and non-point source pollution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant","category-nonpoint-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867","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=25867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}