Richard Volpe, California Polytechnic State University
“Yahoo Finance Live: Daily Market Coverage”
By: Yahoo! Finance – June 9, 2026
“Speaks at 1:30:00”
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Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
“Deadly Screwworm Pest Spreads in US With Three New Cases”
By: The Straits Times – June 9, 2026
“The detection of screwworm is probably going to further delay any efforts to expand the US herd. Tonsor said he was “pretty vocal” late in 2025 that more ranchers would start the process of expansion this summer, but increased dryness and now screwworm are creating more uncertainty.”
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Dustin Pendell, Kansas
State University
William Secor, University of Georgia
“Beef Consumers Don’t Need to Worry About the Screwworm Infections in Cattle, Experts Say”
By: WEIS Radio – June 11, 2026
“Americans can continue to feel confident about consuming beef safely. The current drought conditions in the U.S. is making it difficult to expand herds because there isn’t enough grass available to feed on, hay and other supplemental feeds increase costs even more…. Cattle prices are going to continue to be high for quite a while because of these issues.”
“In addition, geopolitical issues, such as the war in Iran, are causing fertilizer and fuel costs to increase.”
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Chen-Ti Chen, The Ohio State University
“Birds of a Feather: The Economic Value of Birds in Agriculture is Coming Back into Focus”
By: Fresh Plaza – Jun 11, 2026
“Bird‑watching has never been a bigger pastime, with millions of Americans traveling, dining and staying in local lodging to see migrating and nesting birds. Nearly 100 million Americans went birding in 2022, spending about $108 billion on trips and equipment according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. That’s about six times more than the total revenue generated by the NFL in the same year.”
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Kenneth Foster, Purdue
University
Ricky Volpe, California Polytechnic State University
“Farmers Were Already Hurting. The Iran War Made It Worse”
By: Notus – June 11, 2026
“Many of the food price increases consumers are experiencing right now have primary explanations that predate the conflict entirely.”
“Higher energy costs and higher fertilizer prices have already impacted the planting and the early stage of the growing process for all these commodities.”
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Brenna Ellison, Purdue University
“New Study Reveals Which Ultra-Processed Food Regulations Americans Actually Support”
By: PSY Post – June 11, 2026
“There is a lot of attention on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), particularly with the momentum of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative. Given this, we thought it was important to understand the public’s perspective on different ways that UPFs could be regulated.”
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Trey Malone, Purdue University
“From Data to Decisions: AI’s Growing Role in Agriculture”
By: Hoosier Ag Today – June 12, 2026
“So, you have a really good undergraduate intern in your pocket now, and you never trust the final product of the undergraduate intern. What you do trust is the beginning stages of the project to the undergraduate intern, and then you polish it from there. And so, I think that’s for anybody in ag and food right now, it’s thinking about what I would have hired an intern to do before and how can I use this to make this a larger task?”
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