{"id":22438,"date":"2014-12-09T16:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wfbf.com\/?p=22438"},"modified":"2014-12-09T16:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:49:57","slug":"nate-zimdars-is-collegiate-discussion-meet-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfbf.com\/farm-bureau-news\/nate-zimdars-is-collegiate-discussion-meet-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Zimdars is Collegiate Discussion Meet Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wfbf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jim-Holte-and-Nate-Zimdars-Collegiate-DM-winner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-22439\" src=\"http:\/\/wfbf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jim-Holte-and-Nate-Zimdars-Collegiate-DM-winner-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Holte and Nate Zimdars - Collegiate DM winner\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfbf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jim-Holte-and-Nate-Zimdars-Collegiate-DM-winner-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wfbf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jim-Holte-and-Nate-Zimdars-Collegiate-DM-winner-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wfbf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jim-Holte-and-Nate-Zimdars-Collegiate-DM-winner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wfbf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jim-Holte-and-Nate-Zimdars-Collegiate-DM-winner-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>Nate Zimdars was selected the winner of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation\u2019s Collegiate Discussion Meet contest at the organization\u2019s 95<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Meeting in Wisconsin Dells on December 7.<\/p>\n<p>Zimdars is a junior at UW-Madison where he is earning a degree in history and education. He grew up on a sheep and poultry hobby farm near Ripon.<\/p>\n<p>His passion for agriculture grew from his involvement in 4-H and working on his grandparents\u2019 dairy farm, a strawberry farm and an apple orchard. Nate is a member of the Fond du Lac County Farm Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The Collegiate Discussion Meet is a panel discussion in which collegiate members are judged on their ability to lead a committee discussion on current issues affecting agriculture and to develop consensus on an action plan to effectively address issues.<\/p>\n<p>By participating, members build basic discussion skills, develop a keen understanding of important agricultural issues and explore how groups can pool knowledge to reach consensus and solve problems.<\/p>\n<p>Zimdars will represent Wisconsin in a national collegiate Discussion Meet contest at the American Farm Bureau FUSION Conference in Nashville this February.<\/p>\n<p>Other finalists included Emily Selner of UW-Madison, Rachel Leege and Kallie Jo Kastenson from UW-Platteville, and Kaylin Spaeth and Aaron Zimmerman from UW-River Falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Zimdars was selected the winner of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation\u2019s Collegiate Discussion Meet contest at the organization\u2019s 95th Annual Meeting in Wisconsin Dells on December 7. Zimdars is a junior at UW-Madison where he is earning a degree in history and education. He grew up on a sheep and poultry hobby farm near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_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":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[430,434,321,432,431,429,433,193],"coauthors":[26],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nate Zimdars is Collegiate Discussion Meet Winner<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nate Zimdars was selected the winner of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation\u2019s Collegiate Discussion Meet contest at the 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