{"id":24790,"date":"2015-08-14T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=24790"},"modified":"2015-08-14T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:42:38","slug":"npr-low-wheat-prices-leave-a-gluten-glut-at-midwests-grain-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/08\/14\/npr-low-wheat-prices-leave-a-gluten-glut-at-midwests-grain-elevators\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR: Low Wheat Prices Leave A Gluten Glut At Midwest&#8217;s Grain Elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/432017353\/432036102\" height=\"290\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>Wheat prices are falling to $5 a bushel, the lowest price in five years. As KOSU&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/08\/13\/432017353\/low-wheat-prices-leave-a-gluten-glut-at-midwests-grain-elevators\">Rachel Hubbard reports for NPR<\/a>, low prices are costing Oklahoma farmers between $20,000 and $30,000.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p><p>The reasons for the price slump? A strong U.S. dollar, which makes it more expensive for overseas customers to buy American wheat, and <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/06\/18\/drought-breaking-rain-proving-too-much-too-late-for-oklahoma-wheat-farmers\/\">weather<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They harvested their wheat in early June, but with spring floods, the quality of the wheat wasn&#8217;t good. That&#8217;s one of the factors driving down prices and keeping the grain elevators at capacity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheat prices are falling to $5 a bushel, the lowest price in five years. As KOSU&#8217;s Rachel Hubbard reports for NPR, low prices are costing Oklahoma farmers between $20,000 and $30,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[313,422],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24790"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24796,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24790\/revisions\/24796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}