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.”
(Continued...)
Read more on: The Guardian
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.
(Continued...)
Read more on: Capital Press
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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Read more on: The Gazette
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.”
(Continued...)
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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Read more on: The New York Times
