{"id":68679,"date":"2015-03-27T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T20:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=68679"},"modified":"2015-03-27T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:46:13","slug":"farmers-union-wants-ballot-meaure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=68679","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Union wants ballot measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33006\" alt=\"Farmers Union\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Farmers-Union1-300x202.jpg\" 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\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s biggest farm group says it will campaign to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to overturn the Legislature&#8217;s decision to loosen the state&#8217;s Depression-era ban against corporate farming.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne made the announcement on Friday during a rally at the state Capitol in Bismarck.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed the legislation last week that exempts ailing pork and dairy operations from the state&#8217;s anti-corporate farming law.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Supporters must gather 13,452 valid signatures by June 18 to get the measure on the June 2016 ballot.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Former North Dakota Agriculture commissioner Roger Johnson, who now serves as president of the National Farmers Union, told supporters in Bismarck that obtaining the required signatures should not be a &#8220;heavy lift.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s biggest farm group says it will campaign to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to overturn the Legislature&#8217;s decision to loosen the state&#8217;s Depression-era ban against corporate farming. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota Farmers Union President Mark Watne made the announcement on Friday during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68679","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=68679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68692,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68679\/revisions\/68692"}],"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=68679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}