{"id":5441,"date":"2016-11-30T11:36:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2016-11-30T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:01:35","slug":"us-sheep-milk-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=5441","title":{"rendered":"US Sheep Milk Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, if you haven&#8217;t already signed up to get <a href=\"http:\/\/foodwriter.us4.list-manage1.com\/subscribe?u=cfcf07fb7836e0dd23be3d64c&#038;id=fd6082ad3d\" target=\"_blank\">Janet Fletcher&#8217;s excellent weekly\/bi-weekly newsletter on artisan cheeses<\/a>, I highly recommend you do. Fletcher used to write the cheese column for the San Francisco Chronicle, and is now a freelance cheese writer, and author and co-author of many books on food, most recently <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsmcmeel.com\/books\/detail?sku=9781449421847\" target=\"_blank\">Cheese and Beer<\/a><\/em> published by Andrews McMeel.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janetfletcher.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/26\/acclaimed-cheesemaker-calls-it-quits\" target=\"_blank\">Fletcher researches the closing of an award winning sheep milk cheese business (Many Fold Farm) in Georgia<\/a>. It&#8217;s a sobering look at the tough economics of sheep dairying in the US, and worth taking a look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, if you haven&#8217;t already signed up to get Janet Fletcher&#8217;s excellent weekly\/bi-weekly newsletter on artisan cheeses, I highly recommend you do. Fletcher used to write the cheese column for the San Francisco Chronicle, and is now a freelance cheese writer, and author and co-author of many books on food, most recently Cheese and Beer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":5303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[233,149,85],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-economics","tag-sheep","tag-sheep-milk","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}