{"id":8781,"date":"2014-09-22T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T19:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2014-09-23T07:34:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T12:34:24","slug":"chicago-ag-tour-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=8781","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Ag Tour Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attendees\u00c2\u00a0had a fantastic time on the Chicago Ag Tour at Fair Oaks Farms! There was a full\u00c2\u00a0bus\u00c2\u00a0with 55 attendees on the drive to Fair Oaks, Indiana. Once there, attendees got to see a baby calf only minutes after her birth in the Fair Oaks Birthing Barn.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, attendees went to the new Pig Adventure to see the growing, farrowing and gestation barns. There they had a one-on-one interview with a pig expert who was holding\u00c2\u00a0a newborn piglet.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the group toured the Dairy Adventure. The bus drove through the open bars and educated the passengers on Fair Oaks&#8217; unique, sustainable process. The group also saw their amazing rotary milking parlor where they can milk 75 cows at a time!<\/p>\n<p>To finish off the day, attendees had dinner in the Farmhouse Restaurant. Carl Bruggemeier, restaurant managing partner, and Gary Corbett, CEO, shared the story of the making of their\u00c2\u00a0operation.<\/p>\n<p>Check out photos of the Ag Tour and the Fall Conference on <a href=\"http:\/\/agday.us2.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=46b0223d98f965d50b60b9eaa&amp;id=3b801d2c89&amp;e=52644ea765\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendees\u00c2\u00a0had a fantastic time on the Chicago Ag Tour at Fair Oaks Farms! There was a full\u00c2\u00a0bus\u00c2\u00a0with 55 attendees on the drive to Fair Oaks, Indiana. Once there, attendees got to see a baby calf only minutes after her birth in the Fair Oaks Birthing Barn. Afterwards, attendees went to the new Pig Adventure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,289,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities","category-fall-conference","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781","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=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8816,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions\/8816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}