{"id":1076,"date":"2005-02-20T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2005-02-20T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2005-02-20T12:55:34","slug":"city_dwellers_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"City Dwellers Plow Money into Farmland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-invest20feb20,0,5446749.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">Stephanie Simon<\/a> takes a look at the city &#8220;slickers&#8221;\/dwellers who are buying up farmland as an investment and renting it back to traditional farmers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Seeking steady, secure investments to round out their portfolios, big-city investors are increasingly buying Midwest farmland, spending $100,000 to $500,000 per field.<\/p>\n<p>Many hire professional farm managers to maximize their profits. The managers, in turn, hire farmers like Wyant &mdash; sometimes offering them a stake in the crop but often paying them by the hour (or the acre), like a hired hand.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Simon takes a look at the city &#8220;slickers&#8221;\/dwellers who are buying up farmland as an investment and renting it back to traditional farmers: Seeking steady, secure investments to round out their portfolios, big-city investors are increasingly buying Midwest farmland, spending $100,000 to $500,000 per field. Many hire professional farm managers to maximize their profits. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}