Rabail Chandio, Iowa State University
“Fresh Analysis of Meat Consumption and Farmland Values”
By: Iowa Farm Bureau – June 9, 2025
“In this episode, we chat with Iowa State University’s resident expert on farmland values, economist Dr. Rabail Chandio. We also explore new research on Americans’ meat purchasing habits, with Rick Stein, who’s the Vice President of Fresh Foods for The Food Industry Association.”
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Read more on: Iowa Farm Bureau
Alejandro Gutierrez-Li, North Carolina State University
- “Inflation,
Trump Tariffs Hurting Americans' Fourth Of July Plans, Survey Finds:
Here's How”
By: Daily Voice - July 2, 2025 - “Ground
Beef Prices Surge To Record High Before Fourth Of July Cookouts: Here's
Why”
By: Daily Voice – July 2, 2025
David Ortega, Michigan State University
“Summer Without Cherry Pie? Michigan’s Signature Crop Faces Battery of Threats”
By: The Guardian – July 5, 2025
“Labor issues are also hampering cherry production. The supply chain relies on a mix of local and migrant labor, and there is a shortage of both. Some migrant laborers are hired through the H-2A visa, a temporary work visa for agricultural jobs, and some migrant laborers are undocumented. Cherrypicking is often done mechanically, but packing and processing relies on human labor. Producers and other stakeholders have seen how Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids make some workers afraid to show up because of deportation fears. Without enough agricultural workers, many of Michigan’s specialty crops could spoil.”
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Antonina Broyaka, Kansas State University
“Expert: EU Quotas Put More Ukrainian Products on Global Market”
By: Capital Press – June 25, 2025
“Ukraine will need to diversify its agricultural exports, since export capacity is much higher than Europe is going to buy from Ukraine. Ukraine will search for alternative markets, which means there will be high competition on the other markets. The EU was always the main market for Ukrainian animal and crop products. Its value for Ukraine was nearly $12.9 billion in 2024, double that of 2021, prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Chad Hart, Iowa State University
“Iowa’s Economy Had the Worst Growth in the Nation Early This Year. Why?”
By: The Gazette – July 2, 2025
“Iowa’s agricultural sector has been “treading water,” waiting to see how Trump’s tariff policies will play out. For our farmers the big thing they need to worry about is not the tariffs that are put in here in the U.S., it’s how other countries respond to those tariffs. And right now, we haven’t seen a lot of responses from other countries because of the on again, off again nature of what we’re seeing here within the U.S.”
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Valerie Kilders, Purdue University
“These Fast Food Restaurants Hiked Their Prices the Most Last Year”
By: World NL – July 3, 2025
“Inflation at fast food restaurants is a multilayered phenomenon. Increased minimum wages for low-wage workers and the increase of general food prices as two large factors contributing to rising fast food prices. Post pandemic, we saw that lowest wage workers, which include those that are typically working in fast food restaurants, saw the fastest growth in wages… From January 2024 to January 2025 "cattle prices increased 20.6% and wholesale beef [increased] around 15%. Eggs are even up 183%, so we're seeing these big increases in just those two categories. The increased prices for the operators are passed on to the consumers.”
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Read more on: World NL or All Things American
Ted Schroeder, Kansas State University
“Why Beef Prices Have Hit a Record”
By: The New York Times – July 4, 2025
“Ranchers reported strong profits in 2014, and expanded their herds over the next five to six years. But with more supply, the price that ranchers received for cattle fell, just as a drought began across the Western United States. With less grass for their cattle to graze on, ranchers had to buy more feed for their herds to subsist on, raising their costs. As the drought persisted, many ranchers decided to sell some cattle and downsize their herd.”
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