{"id":202,"date":"2016-03-14T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forwardmutual.com\/news\/?p=202"},"modified":"2016-03-14T16:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T21:15:36","slug":"national-ag-day-march-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/2016\/03\/national-ag-day-march-15\/","title":{"rendered":"National Ag Day is March 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-208\" src=\"http:\/\/forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wiedenhoeft-barn_ForWeb_shortCrop_noWriting.jpg\" alt=\"Forward Mutual has a long history in agriculture and proudly celebrates National Ag Day\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wiedenhoeft-barn_ForWeb_shortCrop_noWriting.jpg 1763w, https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wiedenhoeft-barn_ForWeb_shortCrop_noWriting-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wiedenhoeft-barn_ForWeb_shortCrop_noWriting-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wiedenhoeft-barn_ForWeb_shortCrop_noWriting-1024x664.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1763px) 100vw, 1763px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Throughout our history, Forward Mutual has celebrated agriculture.\u00a0From our beginnings in the 1870s when homesteaders gathered together to form the two mutuals that make up our company today, Forward has provided caring service for farmers throughout our area. In fact, for many decades our offices were held in the very homes of our company presidents, who were usually dairy farmers. Today a majority of Forward\u2019s officers and board members are still tied to the agriculture industry in one way or another.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For this reason, Forward Mutual is proud to celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agday.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Ag Day<\/a> on March 15. We recognize the importance of agriculture in our lives today and thank the producers, associations, businesses and countless others who work together to provide healthy and nutritious food to people throughout the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agday.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.agday.org\/media\/AgDay-16-728x90.jpg\" alt=\"Ag Day 728x90\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout our history, Forward Mutual has celebrated agriculture.\u00a0From our beginnings in the 1870s when homesteaders gathered together to form the two mutuals that make up our company today, Forward has provided caring service for farmers throughout our area. In fact, for many decades our offices were held in the very homes of our company presidents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community-support","7":"category-farmowners","8":"tag-national-agriculture-day","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"forwardmutual","author_link":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/author\/forwardmutual\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forwardmutual.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}