Kristin Kiesel, University of California, Davis
“Why Are Berries Everywhere, in Every Season? Driscoll’s”
By: NYT – July 8, 2026
“Driscoll’s has changed the paradigm of modern agriculture and produce marketing...A strawberry was a strawberry. Now a strawberry is a brand. And only a huge operation like Driscoll’s can supply market giants like Costco and Walmart with the premium produce that many consumers are willing to pay for, even as their grocery bills rise."
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Bingyan Dai, Cornell University
“Popular Grocery Staple Could Take Hit as California Faces Major Supply Vulnerability”
By: Fox News – August 18, 2026
"California remains central to the nation's fresh fruit and vegetable supply, including broccoli. At the same time, drought events in California have become more frequent in recent years, affecting fresh broccoli production and reliable access for American consumers."
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Eric Belasco, Montana State University
“A Historic Shortage Is Squeezing an American Dinner Staple and Relief Could Be Years Away”
By: Fox Business – August 16, 2026
"The biggest thing has been drought… years of dry weather have depleted grasslands across the West and Plains, leaving ranchers without enough feed or water to sustain their herds. Many have been forced to sell cattle early, including cows needed to produce the next generation of calves, making the road to recovery even longer.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “Op-ed:
Zohran Mamdani’s Promise and the Reality of Supermarket”
By: Vital City – August 19, 2026 - “As
Midterms Near, Grocery Prices Remain Top of Mind for Many Americans”
By: ABC News – August 20, 2026
Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“India’s Employment Gains Mask a Missing Middle and Low Productivity”
By: Basis Point Insight – August 17, 2026
“India’s employment debate is no longer simply about how many jobs the economy can create. It is equally about the quality of those jobs, the skills they demand, the wages they offer and whether they enable workers to move into more productive activities.”
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Joana Colussi, Purdue University
“Growing Pains: Farmers Thinking Twice Before Expanding Operation”
By: Agrinews – August 16, 2026
“Results from the Purdue-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer show a clear divide among producers… Producers who expect their farms to grow generally reported a stronger sentiment than those who don’t expect to grow.”
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Mckenzie Boyce, Oklahoma
State University
Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University
“Will Data Centers Pay Off For Oklahoma Communities? It Depends”
By: KOSU – August 17, 2026
“We've started to explore some of the different ways that communities may benefit from data centers in order to provide more information to communities evaluating some of these different economic considerations for them to make a decision.”
“You know, you think about it, for a lot of rural communities that have really been struggling to improve their school systems or attract people, these are helpful payments.”
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Akwasi Agyeman Britwum, Bank of Africa Ghana Ltd
- “Tantalus
or Triumph? Ghana and the Harvest of Economic Recovery”
By: My Joy Online – August 17, 2026 - “Elixir
or Placebo? Microeconomics as the litmus test for Ghana’s Macroeconomic
Recovery”
By: My Joy Online – January 19, 2026
Glynn Tonsor, Kansas
State University
Josh Maples, Mississippi State University
“Meatpacking Plants Close as U.S. Cattle Herds Shrink to A Nearly 75-Year Low”
By: Marketplace – August 18, 2026
“It’s 86.2 million, to be exact… That makes meatpackers’ operating costs jump. You can only do that for so long before some business adjustment is going to be made, whether that is shrinking the number of shifts, not running on Saturdays, maybe eventually closing a facility.”
“The lack of these facilities could get us into a spot where we run out of capacity pretty quick. The cattle sector is incredibly cyclical. We go through periods of declining supplies and then increasing supplies. Inevitably, Maples said, the national cattle herd will get bigger again.”
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Christopher Wolf, Cornell University
“As Whey Gains, Will Dairy’s Footprint Follow?”
By: Sentient Media – August 20, 2026
“Some dairy producers are also looking at “nutritional and genetic methods to increase the protein content of milk. The protein craze is likely to increase incentives for more protein per unit of milk produced.”
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