{"id":104166,"date":"2019-07-16T12:38:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104166"},"modified":"2019-07-16T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T16:38:46","slug":"madison-county-youth-among-31-junior-dairy-leaders-to-graduate-at-2019-empire-farm-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104166","title":{"rendered":"Madison County youth among 31 junior dairy leaders to graduate at 2019 Empire Farm Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0447JDLBunkTour3005.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0447JDLBunkTour3005.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0447JDLBunkTour3005.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0447JDLBunkTour3005.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0447JDLBunkTour3005.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0447JDLBunkTour3005.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0447JDLBunkTour3005.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 20th anniversary Cornell University Pro-Dairy Junior\nDairy Leader class will graduate 31 students at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 8,\n2019, at the 2019 Empire Farm Days at Rodman Lott and Son Farms in Seneca Falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The graduating class includes Madison County student Erin\nCurtis Szalach of Cazenovia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 1999, the Junior Dairy Leader program has graduated a\ntotal of 468 youth. The September-to-August program builds personal,\ncommunication, teamwork, problem-solving and leadership skills; networks the\nstudents with industry professionals and provides exposure to dairy internship\nopportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the guidance of program leader and Cornell Pro-Dairy youth\ndevelopment specialist Deborah Grusenmeyer, each year&#8217;s class participates in\neight hands-on workshops, attends the National 4-H Dairy Conference and World Dairy\nExpo in Madison, Wis., and tours farms and agribusinesses.<br>\nParticipating students are mostly from New York state, but over the years have\nalso come from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Vermont, where no similar program\nexists. Past graduates credit the program for influencing their decision to\npursue dairy-related careers. A list of the 2019 class of graduates is posted\nat&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.empirefarmdays.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">empirefarmdays.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20th anniversary Cornell University Pro-Dairy Junior Dairy Leader class will graduate 31 students at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, at the 2019 Empire Farm Days at Rodman Lott and Son Farms in Seneca Falls. The graduating class includes Madison County student Erin Curtis Szalach of Cazenovia. Since 1999, the Junior Dairy Leader program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-r66","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0447JDLBunkTour3005.jpg?fit=1500%2C1125&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}