Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
“Trump Promises Farmers $12 Billion to Blunt Fallout From His Trade War”
By: New York Times – December 8, 2025
“Estimates crop producers will lose between $35 billion and $43 billion on what they just harvested this fall, as the trade war with China is not their only problem. The cost of key supplies has been rising for years, and interest rates on their production loans remain high. The prices farmers are receiving on the world market for most crops are below what they spend to produce them.”
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Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
- “The
Rivalry Between the U.S. and China Pressures Latin American Governments
And Reduces Margin For Non-Alignment”
By: La Mana – December 17, 2025 - “Did the
Green Revolution Help Some Farmers More Than Others?”
By: Basis Point – December 24, 2025 - “22
States to Raise Minimum Wage as Many Americans Worry About Affordability”
By: KPTV – December 12, 2025
Zach Rutledge, Michigan State University
- “Ag Labor
Shortages Cause Higher Food Prices, Study Finds”
By: Successful Farming – December 18, 2025 - “Despite
New Aid, Farmers Say Labor Shortages Significantly Driving Up Prices”
By: Fox 17 – December 18, 2025 - “Farm
Labor Shortages Drive Higher Food Prices, Michigan State Research Finds”
By: Brownfield News – December 17, 2025 - “Ag Labor
Shortages Cause Higher Food Prices, Study Finds”
By: Iowa Capital Dispatch – December 17, 2025 - “Farm
Labor Shortage Drives Higher Food Prices Nationwide”
By: Red River Farm Network – December 18, 2025 - “U.S.
Farm Labor Shortages Linked to Higher Food Prices”
By: Fresh Plaza – January 5, 2026 - “Deportations
Are Set to Explode — a Huge Worry For Farmers Already Facing a Labor
Shortage”
By: Saint Louis Public Radio – December 24, 2025
David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “Food
Costs Rise, Holiday Cheer Falls”
By: U.S. News – December 18, 2025 - “How Do
Chain Restaurants Offer Unlimited Pasta in This Economy?”
By: NPR – December 16, 2025
Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis
“Snow, Ice, and Rain Set to Impact Travel Across U.S. This Week”
By: Delta News – December 21, 2025
“Fog this time of year is normal, but less normal in the last decade or so. When we don’t have enough fog, that often means it’s a little too warm.”
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Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“University of Illinois Economists Meet With DeKalb County Farmers and Landowners to Discuss the Current State of Ag Policy’
By: Northern Public Radio – December 22, 2025
“You know why input costs haven't come down and cash grants haven't come down? Because everybody sees these, these ad hoc payments coming out. And if I was a landowner, you know, you can see all that, so what? And again, it's just like taking cocaine. You get hooked to it, and the withdrawal is going to be hard.”
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Deacue Fields, University of Arkansas
“Ag Industry Seeks Light at the End of the Tunnel”
By: Stuttgart Daily Leader – December 23, 2025
“The agricultural economy right now is probably in one of the most depressing states that I’ve seen in my career.”
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William Maples, Mississippi State University
“Mississippi Soybean Farmers End Dour Year, Hope For Profitable ’26”
By: The Commercial Dispatch – December 24, 2025
“Some of the economic challenges soybean farmers were facing were “kind of a holdover from the last 2018 trade war we had with China.”
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Chad Hart, Iowa State University
“Tariff-Ravaged Farmers Exhausted With Trump Using Them as 'Pawns': Report”
By: Raw Story – December 26, 2025
“Assistance is arriving too late to prevent further damage. The hope for a quick turnaround is now gone. If you're holding out hope, that hope is now, at best, looking like it won't come until a year to three years down the road."
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Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University
“Finding a Long Term Farm Aid Fix After Huge Agricultural Losses”
By: News From the States – December 26, 2025
“Once the Farm Bill programs aren't being perceived as doing enough, then you start having ad hoc programs, which you know do provide often provide much needed help, but you don't know when they're going to come.”
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Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee
“Soybeans Have Been a Top U.S. Ag Export for Decades. What Happens When the Top Buyer Stops Buying?”
By: Kiowa County Press – December 28, 2025
“We learned firsthand that being heavily reliant on China for export sales is only good when things are good.”
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