{"id":54845,"date":"2023-03-02T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=54845?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:48:45","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:48:45","slug":"tester-defends-cattle-producers-from-price-gouging-corporations-20230301-0455-121918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2023\/03\/02\/tester-defends-cattle-producers-from-price-gouging-corporations-20230301-0455-121918\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Tester Defends Cattle Producers  From Price Gouging Corporations"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his continued push to support Montana cattle producers  and combat anti-competitive  practices in the meat processing industry, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., reintroduced  his Meat Packing Special  Investigator Act to fight consolidation and enforce the nation\u2019s anti-trust laws. The bill is co-led by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.).<br \/>\n\t  \u201cFolks in Washington don\u2019t understand<\/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":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54845"}],"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=54845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54907,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54845\/revisions\/54907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54845"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=54845"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=54845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}