{"id":27581,"date":"2026-08-19T03:54:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27581"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:53:13","slug":"districts-work-together-to-hold-an-annual-soil-health-field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27581","title":{"rendered":"Districts Work Together to Hold an Annual Soil Health Field Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27582\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27582\" class=\" wp-image-27582\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SoilFieldDay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SoilFieldDay.jpg 469w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SoilFieldDay-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided to PACD by Columbia County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Submitted by Gary Rinehimer, Agricultural Conservation Specialist, Columbia County Conservation District<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>On July 28, 2026, the Columbia, Montour and Luzerne County Conservation Districts, in conjunction with Haz-Wald Farms, held their annual Summer Soil Health Field Day in Sugarloaf, Luzerne County.<\/p>\r\n<p>The day included presentations by host farmers Raleigh and Blakeslee Masters, who discussed Farming for Profit Over Yield, and Penn State Educators, who discussed manure utilization, saving $100 per acre when growing corn, and the state of the agricultural economy.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sixty farmers and ag professionals attended, enjoying a freshly grilled lunch followed by a panel discussion on Bio-Nutrients, with three local farms sharing their experience with different types of bio-nutrient products. The day concluded with field-based demonstrations, featuring an air-seeder, used by the host farm for planting cover crops, as well as a demonstration of drone cover crop seeding.<\/p>\r\n<p>This event was made possible through a Growing Greener Multi-County Soil Health Grant.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Gary Rinehimer, Agricultural Conservation Specialist, Columbia County Conservation District On July 28, 2026, the Columbia, Montour and Luzerne County Conservation Districts, in conjunction with Haz-Wald Farms, held their annual Summer Soil Health Field Day in Sugarloaf, Luzerne County. The day included presentations by host farmers Raleigh and Blakeslee Masters, who discussed Farming for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581","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=27581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27583,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions\/27583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}