{"id":9238,"date":"2012-06-28T15:36:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2012-06-28T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T20:36:44","slug":"meat-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=9238","title":{"rendered":"Meat Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cows-114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9239\" title=\"Cows 114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Cows-114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Meat Week,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2012\/06\/28\/155843064\/unlike-chicken-and-pork-beef-still-begins-with-small-family-ranches\">Morning Edition&#8217;s feature<\/a> this week about U.S. meat providers, offered some interesting numbers for the cattle industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article by Peggy Lowe, a reporter for Harvest Public Media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> There are 750,000 individual cow-calf operations in the U.S., with an average herd size of 40.<\/li>\n<li> There are 2,160 feedlots with 1,000-plus capacity, with the top 25 housing a total of more than 100,000 head or 47% of the market.<\/li>\n<li> There are four meatpacking companies that process 82% of the beef on the market: JBS, the world&#8217;s largest; Tyson Foods; Cargill; and National Beef Packaging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here some more facts that I found through the National Cattlemen&#8217;s Beef Association&#8217;s website <a href=\" http:\/\/www.explorebeef.org\/\">ExploreBeef.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were 94.5 million cattle in the U.S. on Jan. 1, 2009.<\/li>\n<li> In 2011, 90% of U.S. cow herds had fewer than 100 cows.<\/li>\n<li> Five of the top 10 cow-calf operations, in terms of capacity, are located in Florida.<\/li>\n<li> The largest cow-calf operation, with 40,000 head, is <a href=\" http:\/\/www.deseretranchflorida.com\/ranching.html\">Deseret Ranch<\/a>, in central Florida, owned and operated by an entity of the Mormon Church.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Meat Week,&#8221; Morning Edition&#8217;s feature this week about U.S. meat providers, offered some interesting numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9242,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}