David Ortega, Michigan State University
“Many Americans Are Still Experiencing Sticker Shock at the Supermarket”
By: NPR – July 10, 2024
“What consumers are reacting and feeling is the cumulative effect of inflation. Another factor is that unlike other prices, we see and experience food prices on a weekly, if not more frequent, basis because we buy food more often than we get a haircut or book a vacation or buy a car.”
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Charlotte Ambrozek, University of Minnesota
“Why Does Buying Groceries Feel So painful?”
By: MPR News – July 4, 2024
“Charlotte Ambrozek is an applied microeconomist who focuses on food insecurity. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.”
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Christopher Wolf, Cornell University
“Dairy Signal: Employee Engagement, Federal Milk Marketing Order, Market Update”
By: Morning Ag Clips – July 7, 2024
“Bring your questions about the newly released Federal Milk Marketing Order recommendations to this session with some of the leading minds in dairy economics. In the first of two sessions, hear about the proposed changes, what was not changed, and the next steps in moving to a producer vote on these changes later in 2024. The second session of two sessions will be held Weds.”
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James Mintert, Purdue University
“Farmer Sentiment Drifts Lower on Weaker Future Expectations”
By: Morning Ag Clips - July 8, 2024
“The impact of rising interest rates on their farm operations has become a bigger concern for producers in recent months. Interest rate risk and high breakeven levels combined with concerns that crop and livestock prices could weaken are holding back producer sentiment and making producers cautious about making large investments.”
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Benjamin Brown, University of Missouri
“Meet the Ag Economist Shaping Farming’s Future”
By: Farm Progress - July 9, 2024
“A growing number of Missouri producers wonder if they will be able to continue their operations given changes in consumers, input suppliers and other industry factors. That has just been amplified with the growing role of technology, whether that be just the products we use in production agriculture, or whether it’s some of the decision-making software that now exists and the communication channels that exist as well.”
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Nicole Olynk Widmar, Purdue University
“Purdue Researchers Developing Antibiotic-Free Treatment For Avian E.coli”
By: Meat + Poultry – July 9, 2024
“Prototypes for the project were developed for use in Pakistan and other low- and middle-income countries, but the teams have much wider applications.”
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Jens Hilscher, University of California, Davis
“UC Davis: The Unintended Consequences of Clean Fuel Policies”
By: Morning Ag Clips – July 9, 2024
“From 2018 to 2024, food-at-home inflation was 24%, but over the same period, fats and oils inflation was 83%.”
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Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
“Fears of China-Owned Farmland in Wisconsin And US Are Exaggerated, New Analysis Suggests”
By: WPR – July 10, 2024
“Zhang said his recent research found that China and other “adversarial countries” hold zero acres of land in the “Lake Region” of the U.S., a space that includes Wisconsin. His team found that Canada, Denmark and Portugal are the top three holders of Wisconsin’s foreign-held land. The bottom line is, if you’re concerned about significant Chinese holdings of agricultural land in Wisconsin, the evidence seems to say the contrary.”
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Joseph Balagtas, Purdue University
“Americans are a Little Clueless About Upcoming Farm Bill”
By: Seed World – July 11, 2024
“Around one-third of American adults have never heard of the bill, while a similar proportion has heard of the bill but do not know what programs it supports. The farm bill encompasses hundreds of millions of dollars and touches every part of the food system.”
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