{"id":7577,"date":"2016-06-30T21:37:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2016-06-30T21:37:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:37:38","slug":"extension-agents-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-agricultural-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/06\/extension-agents-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-agricultural-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Extension Agents: The Unsung Heroes of the Agricultural World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Modern Farmer<\/em> has a great article this week about extension agents and what a crucial role they play in educating the public about agricultural practices. \u00a0 The story has several profiles of extension agents around the country and what they do. \u00a0I&#8217;m proud to work with many extension agents and serve as an extension specialist in Georgia. \u00a0There&#8217;s even a weather story at the end! \u00a0You can find the link <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2016\/06\/cooperative-extension\/?utm_source=Modern+Farmer+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=c74ea591a6-Thursday_June_30_20166_30_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e8a89c7e43-c74ea591a6-75518621&amp;mc_cid=c74ea591a6&amp;mc_eid=cd66672ffe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7578\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/F._L._Ballard_County_Agent_inspects_field_of_alfalfa_circa_1922_5688033876.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7578\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/F._L._Ballard_County_Agent_inspects_field_of_alfalfa_circa_1922_5688033876-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Source: OSU Special Collections &amp; Archives : Commons @ Flickr Commons\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/F._L._Ballard_County_Agent_inspects_field_of_alfalfa_circa_1922_5688033876-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/F._L._Ballard_County_Agent_inspects_field_of_alfalfa_circa_1922_5688033876-231x138.jpg 231w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/06\/F._L._Ballard_County_Agent_inspects_field_of_alfalfa_circa_1922_5688033876.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: OSU Special Collections &amp; Archives : Commons @ Flickr Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern Farmer has a great article this week about extension agents and what a crucial role they play in educating the public about agricultural practices. \u00a0 The story has several profiles of extension agents around the country and what they do. \u00a0I&#8217;m proud to work with many extension agents and serve as an extension specialist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":7578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-extension-agent-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}