{"id":7492,"date":"2018-05-14T13:27:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2018-05-14T13:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:33:47","slug":"time-on-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7492","title":{"rendered":"Time on a Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010042b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010042b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010022b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010022b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010026b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010026b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010030b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010030b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010034b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010034b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010038b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010038b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010045b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010045b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010046b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2018\/05\/P1010046b.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Driving through rolling hills is a visual treat.   <\/p>\n<p>Add the challenges of farming said hills, managing livestock and running a milking operation.  These operations require a strong constitution, an appetite for risk and the ability to <em>constantly improve<\/em> the business.<\/p>\n<p>I saw waste repurposed to compost, ongoing investments in labor saving tools and the use of software to smartly plant hilly ground, saving precious seed and fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>Making these operations go on a family scale is not for the faint of heart.  <\/p>\n<p>PS. <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22milk+price+history%22&#038;t=hy&#038;ia=web\">Dairy prices<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.widba.com\/news\/385588\/Digging-Deeper-Wisconsin-dairy-farmers-struggle-with-low-milk-prices-tight-labor.htm\">worth a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving through rolling hills is a visual treat. Add the challenges of farming said hills, managing livestock and running a milking operation. These operations require a strong constitution, an appetite for risk and the ability to constantly improve the business. I saw waste repurposed to compost, ongoing investments in labor saving tools and the use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492"}],"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=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}