{"id":163642,"date":"2025-07-23T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=163642"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:45:31","slug":"opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=163642","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Fourth of July cookout costs emphasize the need for agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pam Lewison with Washington Policy Center reflects on the nation\u2019s agrarian roots and emphasizes the role of agriculture in today\u2019s economy through the lens of Fourth of July cookout costs. Using data from the American Farm Bureau Federation, she highlights regional disparities in food prices and calls attention to the challenges facing U.S&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkcountytoday.com\/opinion\/opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pam Lewison with Washington Policy Center reflects on the nation\u2019s agrarian roots and emphasizes the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/163642-opinion-fourth-of-july-cookout-costs-emphasize-the-need-for-agriculture-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}