{"id":1082,"date":"2010-09-15T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=522"},"modified":"2010-09-15T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T15:22:07","slug":"522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"farming and &#8220;the beaver&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up more on our <strong>Buckeye State<\/strong> stop&#8230; \u00a0 In rural Bluffton, Ohio, I rode along for a time in combine as a local farmer harvested some soy beans. \u00a0 This was a 1985 combine and is the smallest model out there. \u00a0 He said this model new today would cost about $250,000. \u00a0 He \u00a0continued that \u00a0small farmers are at a real disadvantage to compete today with farming implement prices the way they are. \u00a0 What&#8217;s more, he said that \u00a0currently on average farmers, across the board, \u00a0get about $30 an acre subsidy from the government every year. \u00a0 He said this is a tremendous advantage to mega-corporate farms that encompass thousands of acres. \u00a0 Our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/stands\/position_papers\/pos_agric.html\">agriculture platform<\/a> calls for categorizing these huge corporate farms as monopolies, breaking them up and mobilizing the return of the small family farm, en masse. \u00a0 The small family farm was once the backbone of our country. \u00a0 And should be again&#8230; \u00a0<strong> Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Bluffton, Ohio, is the home of Bluffton University. \u00a0 Their mascott is &#8220;the beaver.&#8221; \u00a0 Last week the <em>Bluffton News<\/em> carried the following Sports Page headline about the university&#8217;s football team: \u00a0 <strong>Beavers Bite Down On Fall Season<\/strong>. \u00a0 I just <em>love<\/em> small town newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catching up more on our Buckeye State stop&#8230; \u00a0 In rural Bluffton, Ohio, I rode along for a time in combine as a local farmer harvested some soy beans. \u00a0 This was a 1985 combine and is the smallest model <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1082\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}