{"id":2141,"date":"2009-04-08T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2009-04-08T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T03:26:18","slug":"economists-livestock-and-poultry-producers-cutting-flock-herd-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/economists-livestock-and-poultry-producers-cutting-flock-herd-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestock and poultry producers cutting flock, herd sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meat, poultry, and dairy producers have overall been cutting back the sizes of herds and flocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But there will be &#8220;huge demand&#8221; for food supply veterinarians for a long time, said David M. Andrus, PhD, who headed a research team for the May 2006 Food Supply Veterinary Medicine Coalition Report and is a professor at Kansas State University&#8217;s College of Business Administration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;There was such a huge shortage that even a fall in production of animals won&#8217;t overcome the need for more food supply veterinarians,&#8221; Dr. Andrus said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That is not to say the production cutbacks won&#8217;t affect veterinarians through reduced spending and delayed payments by clients.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Use of corn for ethanol, drought, increased oil prices, price drops for some animal byproducts and high-end meat cuts, and declines in export demand have all contributed to the recent financial woes experienced by animal agriculture producers, according to several agricultural economists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/apr09\/090415a.asp\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meat, poultry, and dairy producers have overall been cutting back the sizes of herds and flocks. But there will be &#8220;huge demand&#8221; for food supply veterinarians for a long time, said David M. Andrus, PhD, who headed a research team for the May 2006 Food Supply Veterinary Medicine Coalition Report and is a professor at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}