{"id":753,"date":"2009-05-14T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/14\/farmers-in-handcuffs\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T13:53:00","slug":"farmers-in-handcuffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/14\/farmers-in-handcuffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers in handcuffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it has nothing to do with Mexican immigrants working illegally on the farm. <\/p>\n<p>You may have heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/13493\/dairy-farmers-hang-on-in-lean-times\">my interview with Extension agent Molly Ames<\/a> about how farmers are navigating dangerously low milk prices. It costs more to make the milk than it&#8217;s worth. But Molly said farmers she knows in Jefferson County are hanging on because the value of land and cows are too low to sell out.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is so bad, ugly things are bound to happen. Molly passed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesargus.com\/article\/20090508\/NEWS02\/905080358\">this story of a Vermont farmer<\/a> who was arrested (!) for bouncing checks when he couldn&#8217;t pay a debt to the feed dealer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it has nothing to do with Mexican immigrants working illegally on the farm. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}