{"id":5511,"date":"2012-03-27T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:05:19","slug":"okie-farmers-on-federal-cuts-take-our-payments-give-us-more-crop-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/03\/27\/okie-farmers-on-federal-cuts-take-our-payments-give-us-more-crop-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Okie Farmers on Federal Cuts: Take Our Payments, Give Us More Crop Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5515\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bjmccray\/422203940\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5515\" title=\"Oklahoma Farmers\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/okie-farmers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/okie-farmers.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/okie-farmers-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">bjmccray \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma received $81 million in direct farm payments in 2010, data show.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Congress is looking for ways to slash federal spending, and the U.S. House is taking up a budget that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agweek.com\/event\/article\/id\/19686\/\">cuts<\/a> $30 billion over 10 years from federal farm-related programs.<\/p><p>The controversial direct payments \u2014 which aren\u2019t tied to crop production \u2014 have been targeted for cuts. About 27,000 people in Oklahoma shared more than $81 million in such payments in 2010, <em>The Oklahoman<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/oklahoma-farmers-are-willing-to-take-some-federal-cuts\/article\/3661049\/?page=1\">reports<\/a>.<\/p><p>Oklahoma farmers are willing to give up the direct payments, for a trade:<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; they want an enhanced crop insurance system to protect against catastrophic losses, the president of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau said here Monday, reports the paper\u2019s Chris Casteel.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The improvement of the American agriculture sector is outpacing the recovery of the overall economy, according to the Republican budget, which notes: \u201cTaxpayers should not finance payments for a business sector that is more than capable of thriving on its own.\u201d<\/p><p>Of the $81 million in direct payments sent to Oklahoma, about half the recipients received less than $1,000 that year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026 but six farms received more than $100,000, the paper reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is looking for ways to slash federal spending, and the U.S. House is taking up a budget that cuts $30 billion over 10 years from federal farm-related programs.The controversial direct payments \u2014 which aren\u2019t tied to crop production \u2014 have been targeted for cuts. About 27,000 people in Oklahoma shared more than $81 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,16,300],"tags":[313,341],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12113,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions\/12113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}