{"id":130991,"date":"2026-08-06T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/why-some-ranchers-still-want-mandatory-country-of-origin-labels-20260805-0320-478184\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:00:34","modified_gmt":"2029-01-22T05:00:34","slug":"why-some-ranchers-still-want-mandatory-country-of-origin-labels-20260805-0320-478184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/06\/why-some-ranchers-still-want-mandatory-country-of-origin-labels-20260805-0320-478184\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Ranchers Still Want  Mandatory Country-Of-Origin Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanie Alderson, who ranches in the southeastern  Montana town of Birney,  can tell you exactly how much she sold her cattle for in the fall of 2015. And she knows how much the going price dropped the next year, too, when revenue at her family operation  dipped by about $120,000.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cA lot of money for a little  ranch like ours,\u201d Alderson  said.<br \/>\n\t  In December 2015, after Alderson sent that year\u2019s<\/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\/130991"}],"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=130991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131060,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130991\/revisions\/131060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130991"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=130991"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=130991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}