{"id":786,"date":"2008-09-16T12:28:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=786"},"modified":"2008-09-16T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:05:44","slug":"ag-day-planning-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"Ag Day Planning Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/agday.jpg\" \/>The Agriculture Council of America Board of Directors&#8217; met on September 8 to begin the planning for Ag Day 2009, which occurs on March 20.<\/p>\n<p>The board discussed the poster for 2009 and began work on planning activities for events to be held in Washington, DC. In addition, new ACA Board Members were named for the 2008-2009 year. Greg Webb, Archer Daniels Midland, succeeded Gerald Tumbleson, Natl. Corn Growers Association, as the Chair of the ACA Board. Tumbleson becomes the Past <img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/acaboard.jpg\" \/>Chair. Additional ACA Board members include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Vice Chair<\/strong><br \/>\nLinda Tank, CHS, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary\/Treasurer<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. John Bonner, Council for Agricultural Science &#038; Technology (CAST)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Members<\/strong><br \/>\nLynn Henderson, AgriMarketing Magazine<br \/>\nTerry Gilbert, American Farm Bureau Federation<br \/>\nMelanie Miller, The Sugar Association<br \/>\nDoug Loudenslager, Natl. FFA Organization<br \/>\nBarry Nelson, John Deere Agricultural Marketing Center<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>National Agriculture Day occurs every year on the first day of Spring. Join us in 2009 on, or around, March 20th, as we honor agriculture for providing safe, abundant and affordable products, a strong economy, a source of renewable energy, and a world of job opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on National Ag Day\/Week, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.agday.org\">www.agday.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agriculture Council of America Board of Directors&#8217; met on September 8 to begin the planning for Ag Day 2009, which occurs on March 20. The board discussed the poster for 2009 and began work on planning activities for events to be held in Washington, DC. In addition, new ACA Board Members were named for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}