
{"id":15821,"date":"2011-02-09T18:58:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=15821"},"modified":"2011-02-09T18:58:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T23:58:28","slug":"cuts-to-farm-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/02\/09\/cuts-to-farm-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts to farm programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funds for the Carrboro Farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Market \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Truck Bucks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and other innovative programs for local farmers could quickly dry up if a GOP plan to tap money from the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund is approved, farm advocates say.<\/p>\n<p>The fund, intended to help farmers and rural communities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 transition away from tobacco, is one of several state funds GOP leaders in the General Assembly want to use to fill a budget shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>The state Senate approved the plan this week. Hearings by the N.C. House are expected to open next week.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new Piedmont Value Added Processing Center in Hillsborough and Eastern Carolina Organics in Pittsboro are among the recipients of funding from the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funds for the Carrboro Farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Market \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Truck Bucks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and other programs could quickly dry up if a GOP plan to tap money from the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund is approved, farm advocates say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15823,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15821\/revisions\/15823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}