{"id":39197,"date":"2023-03-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=39197"},"modified":"2023-03-14T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T19:18:35","slug":"protecting-floridas-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=39197","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Florida\u2019s farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023-03-15-Farm-Bureau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023-03-15-Farm-Bureau.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023-03-15-Farm-Bureau.jpg 496w, https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2023-03-15-Farm-Bureau-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson was the featured speaker at the Taylor County Farm Bureau\u2019s annual meeting held Thursday, March 9, at Forest Capital Hall. The former senate president and large-scale egg farmer from Trilby (Pasco County) was recently elected to oversee the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Simpson, spoke on a variety of topics, including his support of 4-H and FFA, the importance of protecting Florida farms from frivolous lawsuits due to the role they play in maintaining the nation\u2019s food supply and generating billions of dollars to the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson was the featured speaker at the Taylor County Farm Bureau\u2019s annual meeting held Thursday, March 9, at Forest Capital Hall. The former senate president and large-scale egg farmer from Trilby (Pasco County) was recently elected to oversee the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Simpson, spoke on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,1886,306],"class_list":["post-39197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-florida-commissioner-of-agriculture","tag-taylor-county-farm-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39199,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39197\/revisions\/39199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}