{"id":68251,"date":"2015-03-20T14:54:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=68251"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:54:04","slug":"dalrymple-signs-pork-dairy-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=68251","title":{"rendered":"Dalrymple signs pork dairy exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2268\" alt=\"dalrymple-Gov\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dalrymple-Gov.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signed a bill to exempt pork and dairy operations from the state&#8217;s eight-decades-old anti-corporate farming law.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dalrymple signed the bill on Friday, after it was approved by North Dakota&#8217;s Legislature.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The so-called &#8220;ham-and-cheese&#8221; bill has been one of the most contentious non-oil related bills considered by lawmakers this session.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Supporters say it&#8217;s intended to revitalize dairy and swine farms after years of decline. Opponents believe the anti-corporate farming law blocks unfair competition from big, out-of-state corporations.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Federal agriculture data show the number of dairy farms in North Dakota has decreased from about 350 in 2002 to 91 now.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Data show swine numbers have also declined from about 280,000 in 1995 to about 139,000 in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signed a bill to exempt pork and dairy operations from the state&#8217;s eight-decades-old anti-corporate farming law. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dalrymple signed the bill on Friday, after it was approved by North Dakota&#8217;s Legislature. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The so-called &#8220;ham-and-cheese&#8221; bill has been one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68251","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\/68251","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=68251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68252,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68251\/revisions\/68252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}