{"id":8305,"date":"2026-05-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:00:00","slug":"land-olakes-ceo-beth-ford-on-why-americans-cant-afford-to-ignore-the-gathering-storm-threatening-u-s-farmers-and-ranchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=8305","title":{"rendered":"Land O\u2019Lakes CEO Beth Ford on why Americans can\u2019t afford to ignore the gathering storm threatening U.S. farmers and ranchers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-39518440\" \/><br \/>From food insecurity to severe labor shortages, the agricultural sector is reeling. Land O\u2019Lakes CEO Beth Ford says it\u2019s time for America to wake up and take action.<br \/>\n2026-05-27 12:00:00<br \/>\nHolly Peterson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From food insecurity to severe labor shortages, the agricultural sector is reeling. Land O\u2019Lakes CEO Beth Ford says it\u2019s time for America to wake up and take action. 2026-05-27 12:00:00 Holly Peterson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}