{"id":11320,"date":"2019-11-06T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T16:52:15","slug":"farm-bankruptcies-up-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11320","title":{"rendered":"Farm bankruptcies up 24%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farm bankruptcies are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/news\/article\/northwest-family-farm-bankruptcies-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">up 24%<\/a> over last year, and economists cite Trump&#8217;s trade wars as a leading cause.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The number of family farms seeking bankruptcy protection grew 24% over the last year, according to an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis of recent federal court data.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis found family farm bankruptcies are rising fastest in the Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen low crop prices, low livestock prices for a number of years now,\u201d said chief economist John Newton. \u201cOn the back, now, of that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">we have the trade war<\/span> where agriculture\u2019s been unfairly retaliated against.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not as sympathetic as I ought to be, I suppose, because Trump still has strong support in farm country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm bankruptcies are up 24% over last year, and economists cite Trump&#8217;s trade wars as a leading cause. The number of family farms seeking bankruptcy protection grew 24% over the last year, according to an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11321,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions\/11321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}