{"id":25963,"date":"2024-02-01T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25963"},"modified":"2024-02-01T18:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T18:02:49","slug":"tioga-county-conservation-district-holds-women-in-ag-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=25963","title":{"rendered":"Tioga County Conservation District Holds Women in Ag Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25964\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25964\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25964\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TiogaWomeninAgbyAndreaBoyce-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TiogaWomeninAgbyAndreaBoyce-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TiogaWomeninAgbyAndreaBoyce-1024x486.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TiogaWomeninAgbyAndreaBoyce-768x364.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TiogaWomeninAgbyAndreaBoyce-1536x728.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/TiogaWomeninAgbyAndreaBoyce-2048x971.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Women in Agriculture event had a full house. Photo by Andrea Boyce, Tioga County Conservation District. Photo used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Article by Isabela Weiss, WVIA News, Report for America (reprinted with permission)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Farmers shared experiences at Tioga County&#8217;s Women in Agriculture event.<\/p>\r\n<p>Hosted by the Tioga County Conservation District, women traveled to network with other farmers across the state. Dairy farmer Julie Hess was a speaker at Tuesday&#8217;s event. She has attended every Women in Agriculture event since it started ten years ago.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been coming to the Women in Ag meetings since they started holding it. And I&#8217;ve been bringing my daughter with me, even when she was in like fifth or sixth grade, because I think it&#8217;s important for female agricultural producers to meet other female agricultural producers,&#8221; said Hess. &#8220;But they say that women in agriculture is like the largest growing sector of farmers.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2017 Census found that women comprise 36 percent of the country&#8217;s 3.4 million agricultural producers and that newer farmers are skewing younger. The 2022 Census will come out in Feb. 2024.<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2023-12-07\/farmers-celebrate-their-industry-at-women-in-agriculture-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the entire article.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Isabela Weiss, WVIA News, Report for America (reprinted with permission) Farmers shared experiences at Tioga County&#8217;s Women in Agriculture event. Hosted by the Tioga County Conservation District, women traveled to network with other farmers across the state. Dairy farmer Julie Hess was a speaker at Tuesday&#8217;s event. She has attended every Women in [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25963","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=25963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}