{"id":64892,"date":"2025-10-07T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64892\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:38:09","slug":"global-meat-prices-hit-record-high-as-us-cattle-herds-shrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64892\/","title":{"rendered":"Global meat prices hit record high as US cattle herds shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Global meat prices, largely driven by beef, hit a fresh record high in September, marking the longest run of monthly gains since 2021. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/157afbed-17ee-4bed-bb76-1bc9d906d5b0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Global meat prices, largely driven by beef, hit a fresh record high in September, marking the longest run of monthly gains since 2021. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Global meat prices hit a fresh record high in September, marking the longest run of monthly gains since 2021, as shrinking US cattle herds struggle to keep up with strong demand for beef.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An index tracking meat-commodity costs rose 0.7pc, capping an eighth consecutive monthly increase, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global meat prices, largely driven by beef, hit a fresh record high in September, marking the longest run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-64892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}