{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Farm and Fiddle","title":"What's going on with the mid-Missouri cattle business?","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/50183bc4\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3852,"description":"Beef prices at the grocery store are sky high, but cattle ranchers aren't seeing new profits. It turns out that the giant corporations are squeezing consumers and blaming supply chain problems, but cattle ranchers are suffering from lack of competition as only a few corporations own all the markets. In this podcast, 4th generation cattle man Jeff Jones gives the view from on the farm. 100 years ago, Congress passed the Packers and Stockyards Act to prevent this kind of consolidation but that law is not being enforced. There is a solution... break up the corporations!","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fmizhXjqmL7oBGgXSASw9gfpLZXy5J6dV8uCtbvKVLU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5NzgvMTU1Njky/MTc1OC1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}