{"id":19992,"date":"2015-04-29T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19992"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:47:33","slug":"fhsu-ag-communications-team-places-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19992","title":{"rendered":"FHSU Ag Communications team places 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">The Agricultural Communications team from Fort Hays State University recorded a top-four finish at the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Judging Conference earlier this month.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">FHSU\u2019s four-person team, under the direction of livestock judging Coach Garrett Steede, was part of a group of 800 collegiate agriculture students from 24 states that competed in the three-day event in Moline, Ill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">FHSU&#8217;s ag communications team placed fourth with its public relations plan to increase membership and activity for the American Farm Bureau Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Members of the team were Kristin DePriest, Clearwater junior; Faith Edwards, Winona sophomore; Kacey Rieger, Powhattan junior; and Mollie Ringleman, Imperial, Neb., junior.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Other contests ranged from crops and soils judging and livestock judging to agricultural business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The FHSU contingent had the opportunity to tour the John Deere World Headquarters, visit the networking fair and participate in a food packaging service project where more than 49,000 meals were packaged.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agricultural Communications team from Fort Hays State University recorded a top-four finish at the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Judging Conference earlier&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398],"tags":[5895,5897,5892,5893,3060,5899,575,5896,5898,5894],"class_list":["post-19992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-american-farm-bureau-federation","tag-faith-edwards","tag-fhsu-agricultural-communications","tag-fhsu-agriculture","tag-garrett-steede","tag-john-deere-world-headquarters","tag-kacey-rieger","tag-kristin-depriest","tag-mollie-ringleman","tag-north-american-colleges-and-teachers-of-agriculture-judging-conference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20023,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19992\/revisions\/20023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}