{"id":5649,"date":"2012-06-12T00:05:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2019-03-21T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:02:58","slug":"more-than-a-farm-bill-us-ag-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/more-than-a-farm-bill-us-ag-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a Farm Bill, US Ag official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about the federal Farm Bill, they\u2019re not covering nearly enough territory. That\u2019s the opinion of an authority on the matter \u2014 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.<\/p>\n<p>He prefers to call it the Food, Farm and Jobs Bill. That\u2019s \u201cbecause it really deals with all of those issues,\u201d Vilsack said during a recent telephone interview with The Times-Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Only 15 percent of the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s total budget goes specifically to farm programs, he said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesreporter.com\/news\/ohio\/x465792901\/Its-more-than-a-Farm-Bill-US-Ag-official-says?zc_p=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about the federal Farm Bill, they\u2019re not covering nearly enough territory. That\u2019s the opinion of an authority on the matter \u2014 U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,20],"tags":[1089],"class_list":["post-5649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-watching","tag-farm-and-jobs-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8599,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/8599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}