{"id":754,"date":"2012-06-20T10:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/20\/407\/"},"modified":"2012-06-20T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T16:16:16","slug":"todays-farmer-nine-hours-daily-on-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/todays-farmer-nine-hours-daily-on-a-computer.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Farmer: Nine Hours Daily On A Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"reblog-post\">\n<p class=\"reblog-from\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-25\" src=\"https:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0015e7c59d739b53c755b923121bf8eb?s=25&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/20\/todays-farmer-nine-hours-daily-on-a-computer\/\">Reblogged from The Contrary Farmer:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpcom-enhanced-excerpt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/20\/todays-farmer-nine-hours-daily-on-a-computer\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thecontraryfarmer.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/f1.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"Click to visit the original post\" \/><\/a>From <strong>GENE LOGSDON<\/strong>I promised not to use his name because I wanted him to speak freely which is not easy to do these days when society is in such conflict. He is a fortyish farmer, articulate, engaging, a delight to talk to. He and his brother grow upwards of 5000 acres of corn and soybeans, much of it rented. The first time I met him, several years go, I remembered him saying that a farmer needed to spend two hours a day on the computer, hedging and marketing his grain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/20\/todays-farmer-nine-hours-daily-on-a-computer\/\">Read more\u2026 767 more words<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"reblogger-note\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar avatar-25\" src=\"https:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b6df0328322f652cc47acb4d11144231?s=25&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=G\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"reblogger-note-content\">This is not a pretty vision of the future of American farming.Logsdon calls the consolidation of farmland into land trusts (worked by employees, not owner-farmers) &#8220;socialistic,&#8221; but I think that&#8217;s inaccurate.What he&#8217;s describing is really more like feudalism. <em>Without<\/em> the reciprocal obligations that medieval lords had to their serfs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reblogged from The Contrary Farmer: From GENE LOGSDON I promised not to use his name because I wanted him to speak freely which is not easy to do these days when society is in such conflict. 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He and his brother grow upwards of [&#8230;]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=eclecticamateur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14790197&amp;post=407&amp;subd=eclecticamateur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agrarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}