{"id":2930,"date":"2015-08-14T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T19:20:02","slug":"upcoming-field-day-focuses-on-soil-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2015\/08\/14\/upcoming-field-day-focuses-on-soil-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Field Day Focuses on Soil Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2932\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2932\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2015\/08\/14\/upcoming-field-day-focuses-on-soil-health\/img_3133\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1409309699&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;9.855&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3133\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Joel Myers talks soil health  at 2014 field in&lt;br \/&gt;\nAddison County .&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-2932 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Joel Myers talks soil health  at 2014 field in  Addison County .\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/files\/2015\/08\/IMG_3133.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Myers talks soil health with farmers at 2014 field in<br \/> Addison County.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday, August 21, we will hold a day-long field day focused on soil health. The Summer Soil Health Field Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Gervais Family Farm #2 on Davis Road in Enosburg Falls.<\/p>\n<p>The day will feature Joel Myers, a private consultant in continuous no-till systems and cover cropping. Joel was a state agronomist with USDA NRCS in Pennsylvania before his 2006 retirement and has more than 40 years working with farmers on soil health benefits of no-till systems, as well as crop rotations and cover cropping.<\/p>\n<p>The field day will also include information about cover crops, no-till, and manure management as well as equipment and field demonstrations.\u00a0The event is a collaboration among the UVM Extension Northwest Crops and Soils Program (NWCS), Friends of Northern Lake Champlain (FNLC), and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).<\/p>\n<p>Registration is free &#8211;with lunch generously sponsored by Champlain Valley Equipment&#8211; but please register online at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IoSrpm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1IoSrpm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/cropsoil\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015Flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Soil Health Field Day Flyer<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 21, we will hold a day-long field day focused on soil health. The Summer Soil Health Field Day will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Gervais Family Farm #2 on Davis Road in Enosburg Falls. The day will feature Joel Myers, a private consultant in continuous no-till systems &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/2015\/08\/14\/upcoming-field-day-focuses-on-soil-health\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Upcoming Field Day Focuses on Soil Health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"outcropn","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/author\/outcropn\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67qLh-Lg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/outcropn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}