{"id":14105,"date":"2024-11-20T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=14105"},"modified":"2024-11-20T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:39:48","slug":"local-farmers-federation-helps-raise-funds-for-ag-foundation-during-skeet-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=14105","title":{"rendered":"Local Farmers Federation helps raise funds for Ag Foundation during skeet shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson County Farmers Federation recent team participants in the Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation Skeet Shoot were Phillip Thompson, Representative Mike Kirkland, Senator Steve Livingston and Mike Neal. <!--more-->The annual event was held November 1 at Selwood Farms in Alpine to raise money for Foundation scholarships, Ag in the Classroom and other programs supporting agricultural education and youth development. The mission of the Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation is \u201cto support and advance agriculture in the state of Alabama through education and research; increase awareness of agriculture in Alabama through public programs and activities; improve and expand agricultural services and products for the benefit of all citizens and to establish and maintain high standards in agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Annually, the Foundation supports Alabama Ag in the Classroom and mini-grants for teachers; the Alabama Junior Livestock Expo; college scholarship programs; and the Alfa Youth Leadership Conference.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14106\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Skeet-Shoot-Jackson-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Skeet-Shoot-Jackson-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Skeet-Shoot-Jackson-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Skeet-Shoot-Jackson-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Skeet-Shoot-Jackson-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2024-Skeet-Shoot-Jackson.jpg 1673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackson County Farmers Federation team participants in the Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation Skeet Shoot were, from left, Phillip Thompson, Rep. Mike Kirkland, Sen. Steve Livingston and Mike Neal. The annual event was held Nov. 1 at Selwood Farms in Alpine to raise money for Foundation scholarships, Ag in the Classroom and other programs supporting agricultural education and youth development.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson County Farmers Federation recent team participants in the Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation Skeet Shoot were Phillip Thompson, Representative Mike Kirkland, Senator Steve Livingston and Mike Neal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14107,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105\/revisions\/14107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}