{"id":58082,"date":"2014-09-22T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58082"},"modified":"2014-09-22T08:16:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T12:16:12","slug":"equine-workshops-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58082","title":{"rendered":"Equine Workshops Offered"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cornell<\/a><\/p>\n

(Madison County, NY- Sept. 2014) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County and partners, including the NYS Center for Equine Business Development, announce registration is now open for its first ever October Equine Series.<\/p>\n

The series will feature four educational workshops, all Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8:30 p.m. starting Oct. 8\u00a0and ending Oct. 29, with each discussing a unique facet of equine ownership.\u00a0 Equine owners and those that work with or around horses will benefit from attending these hands-on workshops that will expose participants to best practices in the industry.\u00a0 Each workshop will be held at a different equine facility in Madison County and will include a brief tour of the location.<\/p>\n

Forage and Grazing Management will be the first of the workshops and will take place at Hawk Hollow Farm in Erieville. \u00a0Topics to be covered include keeping pasture records, managing pasture on a budget, and using forage analysis to best economize feeding programs.\u00a0 Attendees of this workshop will receive a free forage sampling kit with three lucky participants winning a free forage analysis courtesy of Equi-Analytical Laboratories.<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s Tack & Field in Hubbardsville will host the second workshop, The Kinematics of Equestrian Injuries.\u00a0 In this workshop guests will gain knowledge about how to prevent, and treat if necessary, the most common equestrian injuries.<\/p>\n

The third in the series is taking place in partnership with the NYS Center for Equine Business Development at their facilities at Cazenovia College.\u00a0 This workshop, Business Management for Equine Owners, will inform participants of marketing, record keeping, and business plan development.\u00a0 Care for Equine Injuries will be the final workshop and will cover how to care for equine injuries and include a tour of the Morrisville State College\u2019s Equine Rehabilitation Facility where the workshop will be held.<\/p>\n

Workshops are not discipline specific and will be beneficial to all equine owners.\u00a0 Speakers include: Professor Carol Buckhout; \u201cGrass Whisperer\u201d Troy Bishopp; President of Brookfield Riding and Driving Association, Karen Nowak; Vice President for Marketing & Communications at Cazenovia College, Wayne Westervelt; Professor Adam D\u2019Agostino; and Dr. Erin Morgan-Paugh, DVM, CERT.<\/p>\n

Cost per workshop is $10.<\/p>\n

To register, visit:\u00a0https:\/\/apps.cce.cornell.edu\/event_registration\/main\/events.cfm<\/a>; events will be listed under Madison County.<\/p>\n

For more information please contact Marie Anselm, Agriculture Economic Development Resource Educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County at\u00a0ma882@cornell.edu\u00a0or\u00a0315.684.3001 ext. 126.<\/p>\n

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(Madison County, NY- Sept. 2014) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Madison County and partners, including the NYS Center for Equine Business Development, announce registration is now open for its first ever October Equine Series. The series will feature four educational workshops, all Wednesday evenings from 6 to 8:30 p.m. starting Oct. 8\u00a0and ending Oct. 29, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agfarming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-f6O","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082","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=58082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}