{"id":66406,"date":"2016-03-17T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66406"},"modified":"2016-03-17T07:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T11:35:04","slug":"farm-bureau-helps-ffa-students-experience-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66406","title":{"rendered":"Farm Bureau Helps FFA Students Experience State Government"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MCFB FFA Sponsor.SV- MCFB Treasurer Scott O\u2019Mara (left) presents a check to Stockbridge Valley FFA members (from l to R) Jarrett Jacobs, Dani Webb, Jacob Ax and Serene Borrow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Madison County Farm Bureau takes great pride in helping mentor and provide\u00a0opportunities for the next generation of farmers and agricultural leaders. Through financial\u00a0support, County Farm Bureau programming and educational outreach, Farm Bureau members\u00a0seek to make a lasting impact on the community.<\/p>\n

The County Farm Bureau helped offset the costs for FFA student leaders from DeRuyter and\u00a0Stockbridge Valley to attend the Governmental and Global Awareness Institute in Albany, a\u00a0two-day conference t<\/p>\n

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MCFB FFA Sponsor.DeRuyter- MCFB Treasurer Scott O\u2019Mara presents a check to Austin Wood of DeRuyter FFA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

hat engages students and local lawmakers.<\/p>\n

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In this intensive program, students gain knowledge of the legislative process and develop leadership skills that help them\u00a0advocate on behalf of agriculture, education and the FFA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is such great value for the students that take part in this conference,\u201d said Madison County Promotion and\u00a0Education Chair Johanna Bossard. I know they made a great case for the importance of\u00a0adequate funding in the state budget for ag education.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Madison County Farm Bureau takes great pride in helping mentor and provide\u00a0opportunities for the next generation of farmers and agricultural leaders. Through financial\u00a0support, County Farm Bureau programming and educational outreach, Farm Bureau members\u00a0seek to make a lasting impact on the community. The County Farm Bureau helped offset the costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66408,"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":[23679,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2.MCFB-FFA-Sponosr.DeRuyter.jpg?fit=4160%2C2340&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hh4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66406","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=66406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}