Rabail Chandio , Iowa State University
“Nearly 42,000 Acres of Farmland Sold to Mormon Church for $289 Million”
By: Successful Farming – January 24, 2025
“The purchase of farmland by Farmland Reserve doesn’t necessarily indicate a trend of farmland being bought by investors. There’s always a fraction of sales that are accounted for by investors. Something like this comes up every now and again.”
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Levan Elbakidze, West Virginia University
- “Reaching
Gulf Dead Zone Reduction Goals Will Cost $7 Billion, Study Finds”
By: Louisiana Illuminator – February 3, 2025 - “Researchers
Examine Economic Impacts of Aquatic Dead Zones”
By: News Wise - January 30, 2025
Chad Hart, Iowa State University
“Soybean Growers Look to Buck Headwinds”
By: High Plains Journal - February 21, 2025
“Producers will need to watch for signals in the upcoming months, and that includes watching China and Mexico. The soybean market will definitely swing with the imposition of tariffs. China is the largest export market for U.S. soybeans, and Mexico is the third largest. The talk of tariffs has weighed down on soybean prices.”
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Jada Thompson, University of Arkansas
- “Tennessee
Poultry Industry Not as Hard-Hit By Avian Flu, Data Show”
By: Tennessee Outlook – February 21, 2025 - “Is Bird
Flu the Only Reason Egg Prices Are Soaring?”
By: DNYUZ – February 25, 2025 - "Why
Aren't Chicken-meat Prices Rising Like Egg Prices?"
By: NTD News - February 27, 2025
Frayne Olson, North
Dakota State University
Chad Hart, Iowa State University
“American Farmers To Plant More Corn, Seeking Best Chance at Profits”
By: Reuters – February 26, 2025
"When you look at relative profitability, corn is winning the acreage battle.”
“Some farmers may be able to earn "a nickel or two" on every bushel of corn. But for soybeans and other crops, prices have fallen below the cost of production. Right now, given what cost structures look like, corn has the best pathway to make a little profit in 2025."
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Carrie Litkowski, USDA - Economic Research Service
“Soybean Growers Look to Buck Headwinds”
By: High Plains Journal – February 21, 2025
“Carrie Litkowski, a senior economist and program leader in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s resource and rural economics division, the farm income team leader, noted that in 2025, grain total cash receipts from commodity sales are expected to decline about $1.8 billion. A silver lining is that total production costs are expected to decline by $2.5 billion.”
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Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Tech
“Trump’s Tariffs: The Cost of America First on Your Grocery Bill”
By: The News Feed NRV – February 24, 2025
“The estimated poverty rate in the NRV is about 19%, almost double the rate for Virginia as a whole. Poor people spend about 33% of after-tax incomes on food (compared to about 14% for the median household.”
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Joseph Balagtas, Purdue University
“Egg Inflation, Shortage Stressing College Station Businesses”
By: KBTX – February 26, 2025
“Egg inflation is back in grocery stores, with prices at about 70% higher than they were a year ago. The egg shortage is linked to the pervasive avian influenza, most widely known as the bird flu. Once bird flu is detected on a farm, the farm is quarantined, and the birds are taken out of production. Egg production at the end of 2024 was about 3% lower than at the same time in 2023.
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Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University
“K-State Agricultural Economists Explain Farm Bill and crop Insurance Options”
By: Great Bend Tribune – February 27, 2025
“Farmers also have options to purchase county-level crop insurance on top of their individual insurance coverage, but they’re going to cost more and often don’t pay out until the year after the crop is harvested. These programs are designed so that the producer comes out ahead in the long run, but you are going to be paying a higher premium, and might go a couple years without a payment.”
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Ziwei Ye, Renmin University
“Midwestern Field Trials Suggest Overuse Of Rootworm-Resistant Corn Reduces Farmers’ Profits”
By: Eurasia Review – February 18, 2025
"These lessons should be applied to as-yet undefined new transgenic trait technologies for in-plant protection. Ziwei Ye advised against going back to insecticides, such as organophosphates and pyrethroids, for rootworm control. The Bt technology is and was a net benefit that helps safeguard beneficial organisms and soil ecosystems and enhance drought tolerance. These are increasingly appreciated as key resources in feeding the growing world population as our climate changes.”
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