{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeat-and-three.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F2b1a3535-2b1a3535","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Farm to Market","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/fff553/fff55374-93f7-4ac5-b41c-bd6acd98ead1/f9fd9b53-3872-41cc-85d1-6ea09ba045f3/1535120938artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/f9fd9b53-3872-41cc-85d1-6ea09ba045f3\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Farm to Market\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"For this \"snack-sized\" episode, we’re joining the Farmers Market Coalition to recognize National Farmers Market Week! This is a great time to talk speak with Ben Feldman, the Policy Director at FMC about farmers, because there is a ton of news about agricultural economics right now. But before we talk about local markets, we step back and take in the bigger picture.\r\n\r\nOn episode two of Meat + Three, we reported a story on tariffs and the escalating trade tensions between China and the U.S. – and how farmers were already feeling their effects. We spoke to Loren Puette of ChinaAg, a market intelligence company that focuses on the ag markets of China. At the time, he said we were far from being a full-fledged trade war, but this week we asked Loren \"What about now? Has a trade war begun?\"\r\n\r\nHis response was yes. “The trade dispute escalated into a full blown trade war on July 6th after both sides imposed 25% tariffs on a variety of imported goods. Chief among them were U.S. soybeans,\" wrote Puette.\r\n\r\nWe bring you a story about one of the biggest casualties of the trade war – a stranded cargo ship off the coast of China carrying soybeans worth $20 million.\r\n\r\nThen, we explain how the \"farmer bailout\" that President Trump has proposed is set to provide temporary relief to commodity farmers, but will have little effect on specialty farmers that sell direct-to-consumer. On the other hand, Feldman explains that specialty farmers are able to weather economic fluctuations, because they get better prices on crops through direct sales."}