{"id":94149,"date":"2016-02-08T11:32:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94149"},"modified":"2016-02-09T11:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:32:04","slug":"ref-ballot-language-approved-corp-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94149","title":{"rendered":"Referendum language approved, corporate farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-86385\" alt=\"jaeger\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/jaeger.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Ballot language has been approved for a referendum that would block a new law that relaxes North Dakota&#8217;s Depression-era ban against corporate farming.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced Monday that the ballot language was drafted and approved.<\/p>\n<p>The North Dakota Farmers Union is leading the campaign to overturn the Legislature&#8217;s decision last year to exempt pork and dairy operations from the state&#8217;s anti-corporate farming law.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say the legislation is intended to revitalize dairy and swine farms after years of decline, and help fuel other agriculture business such as feed and fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>Jaeger says it is the only statewide measure that will appear on the ballot in the June 14 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Ballot language has been approved for a referendum that would block a new law that relaxes North Dakota&#8217;s Depression-era ban against corporate farming. Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced Monday that the ballot language was drafted and approved. The North Dakota Farmers Union is leading the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94149","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\/94149","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=94149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94284,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94149\/revisions\/94284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}