{"id":55922,"date":"2014-09-24T07:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=55922"},"modified":"2014-09-24T07:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:50:31","slug":"cows-and-plows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/09\/24\/cows-and-plows\/","title":{"rendered":"Cows and Plows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cows-and-Plows-9-2014.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55923\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Cows and Plows 9-2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Cows-and-Plows-9-2014.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Local students had the chance to learn about how food gets from \u201cSoil to Spoon\u201d during Tuesday\u2019s Cows to Plows event held at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. The event teaches students about several agribusiness-related areas, including water and soil quality, crop and livestock production, GPS and other farm technology, farm history, and processing and marketing. Sponsors of this year\u2019s event include Advanced Biological Marketing, Ag Credit, Cooper Farms Cooked Meats, D&amp;D Ingredient, Van Wert County Farm Bureau, 4-H Council, Heritage Farm Equipment, Kennedy-Kuhn Inc., Lincolnview Young Farmers, Maumee Watershed Conservancy District, Save-A-Lot, the county Solid Waste Management District, Van Wert SWCD, Wrenco Trophy &amp; Sportswear and the Lincolnview and Crestview FFA chapters. Here, students from Kathy Fleming\u2019s fourth-grade class at Van Wert Elementary School learn about livestock production from local dairy farmer Dennis McCoy. <\/b><i>(Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local students had the chance to learn about how food gets from \u201cSoil to Spoon\u201d during Tuesday\u2019s Cows to Plows event held at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. The event teaches students about several agribusiness-related areas, including water and soil quality, crop and livestock production, GPS and other farm technology, farm history, and processing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 23:56:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}