{"id":4611,"date":"2015-11-27T06:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2015-11-27T06:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T11:24:06","slug":"bad-beef-is-getting-a-little-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/bad-beef-is-getting-a-little-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad beef is getting a little cheaper&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.according to market reports.\u00a0 Industrial beef supplies are dropping from their record highs but still well above the level they were at when the boom began seven years ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty much based on the price of corn and farmers have planted ever inch of ground thanks to the ethanol boom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-11-27\/fattest-ever-u-s-cattle-herd-signals-end-to-record-beef-prices\">http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-11-27\/fattest-ever-u-s-cattle-herd-signals-end-to-record-beef-prices<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Normally it takes quite a while&#8230;at least six months&#8230;for the price a farmer gets to be reflected at the meat counter or restaurant.\u00a0 And with the actual meat accounting for less and less of the price, it&#8217;s probably that again it will be the farmer who will be hit&#8230;.you&#8217;ll probably not notice a hamburger getting any cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>You mean you&#8217;re still eating that commercial junk?\u00a0 Grass fed meat prices shouldn&#8217;t change much at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.according to market reports.\u00a0 Industrial beef supplies are dropping from their record highs but still well above the level they were at when the boom began seven years ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty much based on the price of corn and farmers have planted ever inch of ground thanks to the ethanol boom. http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-11-27\/fattest-ever-u-s-cattle-herd-signals-end-to-record-beef-prices Normally it takes quite a while&#8230;at least six months&#8230;for the price a farmer gets to be reflected at the meat counter or restaurant.\u00a0 And with the actual meat accounting for less and less of the price, it&#8217;s probably that again it will be the farmer who will be hit&#8230;.you&#8217;ll probably not notice a hamburger getting any cheaper. You mean you&#8217;re still eating that commercial junk?\u00a0 Grass fed meat prices shouldn&#8217;t change much at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn","category-food"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","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=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4612,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/4612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}