{"id":3116,"date":"2014-02-02T07:57:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2014-02-02T07:57:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T12:57:41","slug":"us-cattle-herd-shrinks-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/us-cattle-herd-shrinks-still\/","title":{"rendered":"US cattle herd shrinks still more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of cattle in the United States has plunged to the lowest it&#8217;s been since 1951.\u00a0 That&#8217;s more than 60 years that the beef supply has been this low.<\/p>\n<p>For cattlemen that have been able to stick it out through high feed and energy costs&#8212;and droughts&#8212;this is good news in the short run.\u00a0 It means of course that cattle prices will continue to set records.\u00a0 But since that will chase consumers to other choices, it&#8217;s not so good.<\/p>\n<p>The only bright spot in the report is the news that farmers are starting to hold onto their heifers&#8230;.that adds to the short supply but indicates an eventual turn-around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_LIVESTOCK_INVENTORY?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-01-31-16-46-54\">http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_LIVESTOCK_INVENTORY?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-01-31-16-46-54<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of cattle in the United States has plunged to the lowest it&#8217;s been since 1951.\u00a0 That&#8217;s more than 60 years that the beef supply has been this low. For cattlemen that have been able to stick it out through high feed and energy costs&#8212;and droughts&#8212;this is good news in the short run.\u00a0 It means of course that cattle prices will continue to set records.\u00a0 But since that will chase consumers to other choices, it&#8217;s not so good. The only bright spot in the report is the news that farmers are starting to hold onto their heifers&#8230;.that adds to the short supply but indicates an eventual turn-around. http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_LIVESTOCK_INVENTORY?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-01-31-16-46-54<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3117,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}