{"id":12307,"date":"2017-05-23T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=12307"},"modified":"2017-05-23T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T15:52:18","slug":"chesapeake-nama-gets-a-jump-on-dairy-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=12307","title":{"rendered":"Chesapeake NAMA Gets a Jump on Dairy Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/May-18-2017-chapter-event.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12308 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/May-18-2017-chapter-event-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/May-18-2017-chapter-event-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/May-18-2017-chapter-event-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/May-18-2017-chapter-event-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/May-18-2017-chapter-event.jpg 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chesapeake NAMA got a leg-up on June Dairy Month with a dairy-themed meeting in May. The group visited the PA Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE) at the Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture building in Harrisburg.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Roscinski, Communications &amp; Marketing Manager, and Mary Foote, Dairy Education Programs Manager, highlighted the organization&#8217;s activities, including considerable community outreach on behalf of Pennsylvania dairy farmers. A public-private partnership in existence for 11 years, CDE provides resources, support and coordination for the 8th-ranked dairy state in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Tom Mainzer, Agricultural Trade Specialist for the Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture, detailed his group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s support of Pennsylvania food-related companies and agricultural commodities. The Bureau of Market Development assists with international and domestic trade, as well as providing grants for state fairs and other agricultural community support.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees included three Penn State University representatives and students; former National NAMA president Matt Coniglio, from Penton Ag; Andrew Dellava, from <em>Hoard&#8217;s Dairyman<\/em>; and Autumn Rausch, from Certis USA; as well as chapter president Kathy Johnson, treasurer Sonia Wasco and program coordinator Debbie Clayton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chesapeake NAMA got a leg-up on June Dairy Month with a dairy-themed meeting in May. The group visited the PA Center for Dairy Excellence (CDE) at the Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture building in Harrisburg. Stephanie Roscinski, Communications &amp; Marketing Manager, and Mary Foote, Dairy Education Programs Manager, highlighted the organization&#8217;s activities, including considerable community outreach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}