{"id":115283,"date":"2025-11-27T05:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/11\/27\/forcing-packers-to-play-by-rules-will-lower-prices\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:14:26","modified_gmt":"2028-10-12T05:14:26","slug":"forcing-packers-to-play-by-rules-will-lower-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/11\/27\/forcing-packers-to-play-by-rules-will-lower-prices\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Forcing Packers To Play By Rules Will Lower Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curbing anti-competitive practices and reinstating mandatory Country of Origin Labeling will do more to lower  beef prices than importing more beef from Argentina. Unfortunately, ranchers have already taken another hit in a volatile market.<br \/>\n\t  It takes about the same percentage  of your paycheck to buy a pound of beef today as it did 10 years ago. Sure, the price of beef is higher, but so is everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115472,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115283\/revisions\/115472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115283"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=115283"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=115283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}