{"id":13487,"date":"2023-01-13T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=13487"},"modified":"2023-01-24T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:58:41","slug":"national-watermelon-association-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2023\/01\/13\/national-watermelon-association-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Watermelon Commodity Group appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/about\/partners\/#advisory-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CucCAP Stakeholder Advisory Board<\/a> <\/strong>includes industry representatives from the four Cucurbit commodity groups. The National Watermelon Promotion Board and the National Watermelon Association each recently announced changes in their leadership.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On January 6, 2023, the National Watermelon Association announced that George Szczepanski has been named as the organization\u2019s new executive director effective February 26, 2023. He will replace outgoing NWA Executive Director Bob Morrissey who will complete his service in late February and remain on the board to complete a transition period.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/www.producebluebook.com\/2023\/01\/06\/national-watermelon-association-names-new-executive-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On January 13, 2023, the USDA announced appointments to the National Watermelon Promotion Board. More information about the board is available on the Agricultural Marketing Service National Watermelon Promotion Board <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.usda.gov\/rules-regulations\/research-promotion\/watermelon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">webpage<\/a><\/strong> and on the watermelon board\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.watermelon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/www.producebluebook.com\/2023\/01\/13\/usda-announces-appointments-to-national-watermelon-promotion-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New leadership at the National Watermelon Association and the National Watermelon Promotion Board was announced in January 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[679,315,516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13487"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13536,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions\/13536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}