{"id":4630,"date":"2011-08-18T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2011-08-19T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:50:41","slug":"farmers-under-40-could-farms-survive-without-illegal-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/18\/farmers-under-40-could-farms-survive-without-illegal-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Under 40: Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times &#8220;Room For Debate&#8221; opinion pages asks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\">whether American farms can survive without illegal labor<\/a>. Economists, activists and policy researchers all weigh in. And so does Benjamin Shute, co-owner of Hearty Roots Community Farm in the Hudson Valley and co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngfarmers.org\/\">Young Farmers Coalition<\/a>. &#8220;We need to set a national priority to encourage a new generation of  young farmers, and we must adjust our system of agriculture to make  farms into places where Americans want to work,&#8221; Shute writes in his op-ed. I found this particularly interesting coming on the heels of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/pages\/series-farmers-under-40\">Farmers Under 40 series<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2011\/08\/17\/could-farms-survive-without-illegal-labor\/we-need-a-new-generation-of-american-farmers\">Click here<\/a> to read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times &#8220;Room For Debate&#8221; opinion pages asks whether American farms can survive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1420,10,5697,4852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}