{"id":4626,"date":"2010-10-12T19:35:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T09:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australiantropicalfoods.com\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2014-01-22T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T12:03:39","slug":"our-farmers-our-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/our-farmers-our-future-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Farmers. Our Future."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">Australian Year of the Farmer<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2012, we celebrate the <em>Australian Year of the Farmer<\/em>. It recognises what farmers do for all Australians. It\u2019s about what we eat; about fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy, grains, fish, meat and about wool, cotton, timber and wine &#8211; all the fine quality products that our farmers grow and harvest in large and small businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Australia\u2019s farmers should be recognised and celebrated: for feeding the nation, for leading the world in farming techniques and innovation, and for sustaining the vital agribusinesses that underpin our economy. Farmers are the providers of our nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>Australian Year of the Farmer<\/em> reaches out to a broad audience \u2013 indeed to <em>every Australian<\/em>. It aims to involve and bring together rural and urban communities, schools, farming organisations, all the suppliers and the consumers of Australia\u2019s fine produce in a year-long program of events across the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>Australian Year of the Farmer<\/em> will raise the profile of farming, highlighting the importance of food security and our dependence on the Australian farmer. Especially, it will remind city folk of the importance of our farmers, fostering greater connection and understanding, encouraging all of us to look for, to purchase and to appreciate<br \/>\nAustralian produce. And it will demonstrate how farmers respect and value the relationship they have with consumers and urban communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>Australian Year of the Farmer<\/em> will also focus on the future and the sustainability of our farming industries. As the Australian population grows, so does our dependence on our farmers. Our trading partners around the world also require us to keep pace with growing need and with increasing pressure on food security&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8230; It\u2019s an ever-growing need.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For all of us, farming is Australia\u2019s Life Support System &#8230; it feeds, supports, and sustains life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Australian Farmers. Our Farmers. Our Future<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Australian Year of the Farmer In 2012, we celebrate the Australian Year of the Farmer. It recognises what farmers do for all Australians. It\u2019s about what we eat; about fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy, grains, fish, meat and about wool, cotton, timber and wine &#8211; all the fine quality products that our farmers grow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atf-hot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}