{"id":48563,"date":"2022-05-20T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48563"},"modified":"2022-05-20T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T05:34:15","slug":"export-bans-abroad-threaten-to-push-sky-high-food-prices-even-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48563","title":{"rendered":"Export bans abroad threaten to push sky-high food prices even higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring food prices both in the U.S. and abroad have prompted countries to ban exports of core agricultural commodities,\u00a0pushing up domestic food prices<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and leading agronomists to wonder what additional crops could face supply constraints on their way to grocery stores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Food inflation in the U.S. is already at a 40-year high, with the annual index for consumer food prices up 9.4 percent in April \u2014 the largest 12-month increase since 1981 \u2014according to the Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meat, poultry, fish and egg prices increased by more than 14 percent over the last year, the biggest jump since 1979.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring food prices both in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48564,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48563\/revisions\/48564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}