{"id":1824,"date":"2024-04-01T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T09:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2024-04-01T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T09:15:29","slug":"the-best-grazing-farmer-a-contest-with-prizes-launched-by-usamv-cluj-napoca-through-the-grazing4agroecology-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/2024\/04\/01\/the-best-grazing-farmer-a-contest-with-prizes-launched-by-usamv-cluj-napoca-through-the-grazing4agroecology-project\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The best grazing farmer!&#8221;, a contest with prizes launched by USAMV Cluj-Napoca, through the Grazing4Agroecology Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) Cluj-Napoca, through the Grazing4Agroecology Project <a href=\"https:\/\/grazing4agroecology.eu\">(<\/a>https:\/\/grazing4agroecology.eu) and in partnership with UBM Feed Romania, the largest independent feed factory in the country located in the commune of S\u00e2npaul (Mure\u0219 county), is organising a competition for farmers who integrate grazing into animal husbandry (cows, sheep, goats, horses, etc.).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More specifically, this unique competition is aimed at farmers who demonstrate one or more achievements in:<\/p>\n<p>Improving animal health through grazing;<\/p>\n<p>Reducing inputs needed for grazing-based animal feed;<\/p>\n<p>Reducing pollution;<\/p>\n<p>Increasing on-farm diversity;<\/p>\n<p>Biodiversity conservation through grazing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMPETITION DESCRIPTION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The competition is aimed at farmers who make the highest possible use of grazed grass for animal feed;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Farmers are asked to send a short video (max. 5 min.) or pictures describing the main benefits of using grazing &#8211; reduced costs; reduced pollution; improved animal welfare, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The information will be sent via the form: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/FuffazxnTDgb58ZZ6\">https:<\/a>\/\/forms.gle\/FuffazxnTDgb58ZZ6&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AWARDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prize 1: A trip to Ireland (air travel and accommodation) to attend the G4AE project meeting in March 2025. The trip will also include field visits\/farms\/demonstration activities as well as the opportunity to interact with competition- winning farmers from other Member States. The award ceremony will include a certificate (provided by Teagasc &#8211; Ireland&#8217;s leading consultancy provider) for each farmer as well as the opportunity to promote the farm to the G4AE network.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of prizes 2-3 will receive a prize of UBM Feed for the youth on the farm (prize 2 &#8211; feed worth 3,000 lei; prize 3 &#8211; feed worth 1,000 lei).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV) Cluj-Napoca, through the Grazing4Agroecology Project (https:\/\/grazing4agroecology.eu) and in partnership with UBM Feed Romania, the largest independent feed factory in the country located in the commune of S\u00e2npaul (Mure\u0219 county), is organising a competition for farmers who integrate grazing into animal husbandry (cows, sheep, goats, horses, etc.).","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evenimente"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usamvcluj.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}