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Beef production has fallen in recent years because of a years-long drought

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By Ayesha Rascoe

Published July 14, 2024 at 8:08 AM EDT

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Arizona rancher Mike Gannuscio about why the number of the nation's beef cow herd are at their lowest in 63 years.

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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.

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