{"id":214526,"date":"2020-12-09T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=214526"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:14:25","slug":"farmers-union-statement-expected-vilsack-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=214526","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Union statement, expected Vilsack nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-126048\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WatneMark1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WatneMark1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WatneMark1-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/WatneMark1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (NDFU)\u00a0 \u00a0\u2013 North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne made the following statement Wednesday on President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s expected nomination of Tom Vilsack for U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFamily farmers and ranchers have a great leader in their corner in Tom Vilsack. Throughout this transition process, Farmers Union has encouraged President-elect Joe Biden to choose a secretary who understands North Dakota agriculture. Tom Vilsack clearly recognizes the challenges our family farmers and ranchers face. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWith his expansive knowledge and experience as USDA chief in the Obama administration, he\u2019ll be able to hit the ground running on Day 1. We look forward to working side-by-side with him to restore competition in the food and agriculture supply chain, establish stable access to international markets, strengthen the farm safety net, and promote development of biofuel markets.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (NDFU)\u00a0 \u00a0\u2013 North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne made the following statement Wednesday on President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s expected nomination of Tom Vilsack for U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. \u201cFamily farmers and ranchers have a great leader in their corner in Tom Vilsack. Throughout this transition process, Farmers Union has [&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-214526","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\/214526","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=214526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214527,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214526\/revisions\/214527"}],"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=214526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}