{"id":46,"date":"2018-03-19T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/?p=46"},"modified":"2021-04-23T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:52:10","slug":"georgia-agricultural-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/2018\/03\/georgia-agricultural-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Agricultural Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join me in celebrating Georgia Agricultural Awareness Week beginning Monday, March 19th and ending on Friday, March 23rd.\u00a0 This is the second year that the Georgia Department of Agriculture has sponsored this event.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Celebrating Farmers and Food&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Agriculture is Georgia&#8217;s number one industry.\u00a0 In 2015, the total farm gate value for all Georgia commodities equaled $13.8 billion.\u00a0 Georgia&#8217;s top 10 agricultural commodities in 2015 were broilers, eggs, beef, cotton, peanuts, timber, greenhouse, dairy, pecans, and horses.<\/p>\n<p>In Laurens County, the 2015 total farm gate value for all ag commodities equaled $58 million.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the economic impact of Georgia&#8217;s agricultural commodities, visit this web page.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/caes2.caes.uga.edu\/center\/caed\/documents\/AGsnaphots.2017.spreads.pdf<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caes2.caes.uga.edu\/unit\/occs\/resources\/events\/images\/AAW-EXT4H-FBcover.png\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join me in celebrating Georgia Agricultural Awareness Week beginning Monday, March 19th and ending on Friday, March 23rd.\u00a0 This is the second year that the Georgia Department of Agriculture has sponsored this event.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Celebrating Farmers and Food&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ag-awareness-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/laurens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}