Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“How the Holdup Problem Matters in the Indian Solar Power Market”
By: Basis Point Insight – May 22, 2026
“The so-called “holdup” problem is a well-known phenomenon in the subfield of economics, known as Contract Theory. This problem arises when two parties hesitate to cooperate efficiently because they fear the other will exploit their initial investment. In other words, this problem occurs when one party makes a non-refundable, relationship-specific investment, which then gives the other party extra bargaining power to demand better terms at a subsequent point in time.”
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Ricky Volpe, California Polytechnic State University
- “Americans
Are About to Pay Even More at the Grocery Store”
By: Yahoo! Finance – May 27, 2026 - “Americans
Are About to Pay Even More at the Grocery Store”
By: Bloomberg – May 27, 2026
Zachariah Rutledge, Michigan State University
“Migrant Farm Work Booms in Michigan Despite Feds Pay Cut”
By: Glen Arbor Sun – May 25, 2026
“The H-2A wage, officially referred to as the “adverse effect wage rate” or AEWR, was initially designed to protect domestic American workers. What the wage rate is supposed to do is create a wage for H-2A workers that’s high enough that it doesn’t depress the wages of domestic workers or incentivize farmers to bring in workers from abroad. But most farmers say that the cost of subsidizing housing and transportation for foreign workers accomplishes that already.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “Grocery
Prices Are Rising Again in 2026. It’s Just the Start”
By: Newsweek - May 29, 2026 - “Viral
Walmart Receipt Shows What Groceries Cost 20 Years Ago”
By: USA Today – May 26, 2026
Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
- “China's
Tariff's Cost U.S. Ag Exporters $15B”
By: The Farmers Exchange – May 29, 2026 - “Iran War
Fertilizer Squeeze Could Spell Trouble For Harvests”
By: AGBI – April 27, 2026 - “NDSU
Researcher Explains $15 Billion U.S. Ag Export Losses Tied to Tariffs”
By: RFD-TV - May 28, 2026 - “Economist
Warns Sugar Producers Face Billion-dollar Losses, Congress Calls For Trade
Investigation”
By: Korn Radio – May 22, 2026 - “House Ag
Committee Member Says Need For Substantial Emergency Farmer Aid Rising”
By: Brownfield – May 22, 2026
Shawn Arita, North
Dakota State University
Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University
“China's Tariff's Cost U.S. Ag Exporters $15B”
By: The Farmers Exchange – May 29, 2026
"Soybeans account for approximately $6.8 billion, or roughly half of the total,' the study found, while 'beef and cotton each contribute about $1.3 billion, tree nuts about $964 million, and corn another $333 million.”
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Exchange
Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University
- “ARPC
Expands Support for Rural Businesses”
By: North Dakota Ag Connection – May 29, 2026 - “Resilience,
Not Crisis, in the U.S. Agricultural Economy”
By: Swineweb – May 25, 2026
Joana Colussi, Purdue University
- “Brazil’s
Second-Crop Corn System Continues Challenging U.S. Export Competitiveness”
By: RFD-TV – May 20, 2026 - “Wisconsin
Farmers Brace For Fertilizer and Fuel Shocks From Iran War”
By: Herald Times Reporter – May 21, 2026 - “Missouri
Farmers Facing higher fuel, fertilizer costs from Iran war”
By: KFVS12 – May 28, 2026
Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, University of Guelph
“Rising Geopolitical Tensions Show Why Canada’s Agri‑Food Trade Strategy Needs to Change”
By: The Conversation – May 26, 2026
“Canada is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of agri-food products, and the sector contributed $149.2 billion of the country’s GDP in 2024. Since Canadian agricultural producers and food processors rely extensively on exports, the growth and sustainability of the sector depends heavily on international market access.”
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Ian Sheldon, The Ohio State University
“Ag Economist: USMCA Review Could Shape North American Farm Trade”
By: WJAG – May 26, 2026
“Mexico’s our number one agricultural export market and Canada’s number two… It’s a little bit puzzling why the United States has reimposed anti-dumping duties against the import of tomatoes from Mexico and the U.S. currently has an anti-dumping investigation into mushroom imports from Canada and winter strawberries from Mexico.”
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Carl Zulauf, The Ohio State University
“With Higher Prices, Ag Economists' Revise Their 2026 Crop Budgets Up”
By: Agri Marketing – May26, 2026
“Revisions to 2026 Illinois crop budgets are provided along with updates to return estimates for the 2025 crop year. Return projections for 2026 are higher because of increases in expected prices for corn, soybeans, and wheat compared with the last crop budget release in January despite higher cost projections. Projected net returns to a typical corn-soybean rotation remain low relative to longer-run historical averages. Updates to estimates for the 2025 crop year result in slightly lower farmer returns compared with the January release.”
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Natalie Loduca, University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Scott Swinton, Michigan State University
“How Farmers Respond to Climate-Related Risk”
By: Entrepreneur Newsroom – May 30, 2026
“Crop yields depend not only on weather conditions, but also on the producer’s management decisions. We wanted to better understand how farmers perceive uncertainty under changing climate conditions.”
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Kenneth Foster, Purdue University
“U.S. Grocery Prices Rose in April, But Gas Spikes Weren’t the Only Reason”
By: Agri news – May 30, 2026
The full impact of rising energy costs on food likely has not hit retail grocery prices yet in the United States. Higher costs to produce, process, store and transport food can take three to six months to show up on supermarket shelves, where prices typically fall slowly once increased.”
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