{"id":1102,"date":"2007-07-12T02:08:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T19:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2007-07-12T02:08:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T19:08:53","slug":"disease-outbreak-alarms-montanas-ranchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/disease-outbreak-alarms-montanas-ranchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Disease outbreak alarms Montana&#8217;s ranchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By SARAH COOKE<mb :if attribute=\"raw:Byline\"> \t\t\t\t<\/mb><mb :if attribute=\"raw:Credit\"><\/mb><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"source\"><em>The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><mb :if attribute=\"raw:Credit\"> \t\t\t<\/mb><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgrt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>HELENA, Mont. \u2014 The future of Montana&#8217;s cattle industry, some say, is in the hands of the federal government and a Bridger ranching couple.<\/p>\n<p>Ranchers and livestock groups from the state and around the country are anxiously watching negotiations between Jim and Sandy Morgan and the U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service over the couple&#8217;s quarantined cattle.<\/p>\n<p>Seven cows from their ranch tested positive for brucellosis in May, and Montana could lose its coveted brucellosis-free status if the Morgans&#8217; herd isn&#8217;t slaughtered within 60 days of that discovery \u2014 which is July 17.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003779622_brucellosis08.html\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH COOKE The Associated Press &nbsp; HELENA, Mont. \u2014 The future of Montana&#8217;s cattle industry, some say, is in the hands of the federal government and a Bridger ranching couple. Ranchers and livestock groups from the state and around the country are anxiously watching negotiations between Jim and Sandy Morgan and the U.S. Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}