{"id":2540,"date":"2021-09-14T02:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T02:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2021-09-14T02:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T02:06:29","slug":"at-natures-pace-in-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"At nature&#8217;s pace in agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tractor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tractor-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tractor-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tractor-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tractor-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tractor-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/tractor.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>               rural Bluffton                                                                                                              &#8230;photo by Joe    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just interviewed a retired farmer from Hardin County who collects, and restores, old tractors.  He currently has two from the 1950s.  He said he&#8217;d recently read that the <strong>John Deere<\/strong> <strong>Co.<\/strong> has just come out with a $1 million combine, and the top of the line tractors are now $500,000, with between 400 and 600 horse power.  What&#8217;s more, with this advanced, high priced farm machinery, he said a &#8220;small farm,&#8221; anymore, is 1,000 acres, or more.  Our platform calls for a return to a small farm, agrarian based society.  To evoke this shift, in part, we need to go back much smaller tractors (like the one pictured here), and such.  The smaller farm implements will go hand and hand with smaller farms.  <strong>Note:<\/strong>  I once interviewed author\/farmer Gene Logsdon who advocates for this as well.  One of his books:  <em><strong>&#8220;At Nature&#8217;s Pace.&#8221;  <\/strong><\/em>For more on our agriculture position paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/agriculture\">see&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just interviewed a retired farmer from Hardin County who collects, and restores, old tractors. He currently has two from the 1950s. He said he&#8217;d recently read that the John Deere Co. has just come out with a $1 million <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2540\"><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-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}