{"id":42752,"date":"2022-05-05T05:01:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=42752?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-05-05T05:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T05:06:41","slug":"tester-testifies-in-support-of-anti-consolidation-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/05\/05\/tester-testifies-in-support-of-anti-consolidation-legislation\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Tester Testifies In Support Of  Anti-Consolidation Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of his continued fight to defend family farmers  and ranchers from rigged prices as a result of anti-competitive  behavior by corporate  agriculture conglomerates,  U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., testified in support of two of his bipartisan bills to tackle consolidation in agriculture:  the Meat Packing Special Investigator Act and Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cAg production<\/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\/42752"}],"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=42752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42752"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=42752"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=42752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}