{"id":277,"date":"2005-06-08T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=271"},"modified":"2005-06-08T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T12:31:44","slug":"6805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"6\/8\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are back in Bluffton, Ohio, our old hometown.  Last night I talked with a local farmer here who is switching his 60 acre farm to organic for &#8220;environmental stewardship&#8221; reasons.  He told me before he would spend, on average, between $3,200 to $4,000 a year on fertilizer and herbicides.  And although the fertilizer and herbacide would increase his yield a bit, he estimates he&#8217;s only losing about $1,000 a year on these transitional crops (he nets about $8,000 to $10,000 annually on the 60 acres of beans and corn) before his farm is &#8220;certified organic.&#8221;  And in the current market, he stands to make considerably more when he has the organic seal.  However in the interum, he said losing $1,000 a year is a small price to pay to know his family, and his customers, are eating healthier &#8212; without all the toxic chemicals.  <strong>Note: <\/strong> There is a picture of a woman working on her small subsistence farm in Australia as an aid worker approaches to help.  She looks up and says:  &#8220;If you&#8217;re coming to help me, then you&#8217;re wasting your time.  But if your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are back in Bluffton, Ohio, our old hometown. Last night I talked with a local farmer here who is switching his 60 acre farm to organic for &#8220;environmental stewardship&#8221; reasons. He told me before he would spend, on average, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=277\"><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-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}