{"id":155604,"date":"2018-10-15T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=155604"},"modified":"2018-10-15T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T14:16:28","slug":"farmers-union-launches-vote-family-farm-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=155604","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Union launches Vote Family Farm initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33006\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (NDFU)\u00a0 \u2013 The state\u2019s largest farm organization announced Monday that it has launched a Vote Family Farm initiative to educate voters on critical ag issues and the candidates who support family farm agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamily farming is essential to our state\u2019s economy and communities,\u201d said North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne. \u201cWe\u2019re facing a lot of adversity right now in agriculture, but there are opportunities we could be seizing upon if farm-friendly legislators were elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watne said the organization has launched a <em>votefamilyfarms.com<\/em> website to help voters better understand agricultural issues and candidate positions, including positions on the state\u2019s anti-corporate farming law. NDFU members successfully referred legislation that was passed in the 2015 session that would have weakened the law, allowing corporate ownership of land for swine and dairy operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vote of incumbent legislators on SB 2351, which attempted to create the corporate exemption, is posted on the <em>votefamilyfarms.com<\/em> website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach of us has a responsibility to participate in our democracy at the ballot box,\u201d said Watne. \u201cOur goal is to help citizens make an educated vote and elect leaders that will actually support family farm agriculture once elected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (NDFU)\u00a0 \u2013 The state\u2019s largest farm organization announced Monday that it has launched a Vote Family Farm initiative to educate voters on critical ag issues and the candidates who support family farm agriculture. \u201cFamily farming is essential to our state\u2019s economy and communities,\u201d said North Dakota Farmers Union President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155617,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155604\/revisions\/155617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}