{"id":11461,"date":"2014-09-14T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11461"},"modified":"2014-09-13T14:54:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T18:54:18","slug":"the-economics-of-profitable-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-profitable-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Profitable Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/091314_1850_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A while back the gentlemen over at Freakonomics looked at the economics of the chicken business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicken feet used to be a value-less product for chicken farmers. They would be mixed into things like dog food.<\/li>\n<li>Then costs started to rise due to competition for chicken feed from the ethanol fuel industry. Chicken farmers looked for ways to stay afloat.<\/li>\n<li>Chicken feet are eaten in China and industry veterans realized that there was an opportunity to export them.<\/li>\n<li>These days chicken feet exported to China are basically the only profitable part of a chicken.<\/li>\n<li>During October however, the price of chicken wings surges, in what is known as the Football Effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about chicken pricing, sales, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/2011\/12\/09\/the-economics-of-chicken-feet-and-other-parts\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/2011\/12\/09\/the-economics-of-chicken-feet-and-other-parts\/\">Freakonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back the gentlemen over at Freakonomics looked at the economics of the chicken business: Chicken feet used to be a value-less product for chicken farmers. They would be mixed into things like dog food. Then costs started to rise due to competition for chicken feed from the ethanol fuel industry. Chicken farmers looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/091314_1850_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11464,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461\/revisions\/11464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}