{"id":127089,"date":"2026-06-04T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/06\/04\/montana-ag-needs-workforce-solutions-now\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:08:14","modified_gmt":"2028-11-20T05:08:14","slug":"montana-ag-needs-workforce-solutions-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/06\/04\/montana-ag-needs-workforce-solutions-now\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Montana Ag Needs Workforce Solutions Now"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lesley Robinson, President of the Montana Stockgrowers Association  Montana agriculture depends  on a reliable workforce  to remain productive, competitive and sustainable. Yet, across our state, ranchers  and farmers are facing an escalating labor shortage that threatens daily operations  and long-term viability. This challenge is no longer anecdotal or isolated, it is systemic, and it demands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127175,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127089\/revisions\/127175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127089"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=127089"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=127089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}