{"id":39623,"date":"2025-03-22T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39623"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T23:06:27","slug":"the-unbreakable-spirit-of-potato-farmers-why-most-stay-in-the-game-despite-the-challenges-and-often-against-all-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39623","title":{"rendered":"The unbreakable spirit of potato farmers: Why most stay in the game despite the challenges, and often against all odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Potatoes-closeup2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Potato farming is a demanding profession requiring resilience and a deep passion for the land, writes Lukie Pieterse in this article. Farmers face numerous challenges, from extreme weather to marke\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.potatonewstoday.com\/2025\/03\/20\/the-unbreakable-spirit-of-potato-farmers-why-most-stay-in-the-game-despite-the-challenges-often-against-all-odds\/\">The unbreakable spirit of potato farmers: Why most stay in the game despite the challenges, and often against all odds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I love that Potato News Today exists.  Canadian, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potato farming is a demanding profession requiring resilience and a deep passion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[581,482],"class_list":["post-39623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-farming","tag-potato","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39627,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39623\/revisions\/39627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}