{"id":150,"date":"2007-08-28T14:13:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/uncategorized\/shoppers-face-meat-price-rises\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T14:13:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T14:13:31","slug":"shoppers-face-meat-price-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/28\/shoppers-face-meat-price-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoppers &#8216;face meat price rises&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Meat prices are set to increase as farmers pass on the burden of surging costs, a report has suggested.<\/strong> <\/font>With wheat prices rising, animal feed costs have almost doubled for farmers, the study by Deloitte found.<\/p>\n<p>The group warned price rises were vital for an industry at &#8220;breaking point&#8221; after the recent foot-and-mouth scare and floods had taken their toll.<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes days after consumers were told to prepare for rising bread prices as wheat costs hit records. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>Bad weather in key grain growing areas such as Canada and parts of Europe has limited supplies as demand has risen, sparking fears of a grain shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the rising demand has come from the biofuel industry, which uses the grain to produce ethanol for cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meat prices are set to increase as farmers pass on the burden of surging costs, a report has suggested. With<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commodities","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}