{"id":876329,"date":"2025-10-08T23:11:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/the-federal-farm-policy-trap-why-some-farmers-are-stuck-raising-crops-that-no-longer-thrive\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:11:54","slug":"the-federal-farm-policy-trap-why-some-farmers-are-stuck-raising-crops-that-no-longer-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/the-federal-farm-policy-trap-why-some-farmers-are-stuck-raising-crops-that-no-longer-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois, Julia Rendleman for ProPublica and Lylee Gibbs, Saluki Local Reporting Lab                <\/p>\n<p>                        This article was produced for ProPublica\u2019s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. A portion of the reporting in Alexander County is supported by funding from the Pulitzer Center&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois, Julia Rendleman for ProPublica and Lylee Gibbs, Saluki Local Reporting Lab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois, Julia Rendleman for ProPublica and Lylee Gibbs, Saluki Local Reporting Lab This article was produced for ProPublica\u2019s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. A portion of the reporting in Alexander County is supported by funding from the Pulitzer Center&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,729,192],"tags":[5183,5034],"class_list":{"0":"post-876329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-federal","8":"category-policy","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-federal","11":"tag-policy"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}