Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University
David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Hertel, Purdue University
“Scientists Shielding Farming From Climate Change Need More Public Funding. But They’re Getting Less”
By: AP News – March 31, 2025
“This is terrible news for the U.S.
agricultural sector… Think of it like riding a bike into a headwind. To
maintain the same speed, you have to pedal harder; in this case, R&D
can be that extra push.”
“I really worry that if we don’t really look at the global food situation, we will have a disaster."
“More people on the Earth, you need
more productivity to prevent food prices going crazy. Even if nothing
changes right away, he thinks “10 years from now, 20 years from now, our
yield growth will surely be stunted” by cuts to research on
agricultural productivity.
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
Ian Sheldon, The Ohio State University
“Farmers Brace for Significant Losses in a New Trade War”
By: NYT – April 4, 2025
“If these tariffs go into effect for a
significant period, we’re likely looking at a disruption that is likely
to be severe, and likely worse than the 2018 trade war.”
“We will lose more market share in
China, and the potential to divert that elsewhere in the world will be
stymied by the fact that the tariffs implemented yesterday were so broad
and across so many potential export markets.”
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Amit Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
- “A Tale of Economic Advantage Driven By Obesity”
By: Rochester Business Journal – April 4, 2025 - “Trump Promises Tariffs Are Here to Stay”
By: PBS – April 7, 2025
Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
- “A Headwind For Investment and Employment Around the World": Experts' Views On the Impact of U.S. Tariffs on Industry”
By: Nikkei – April 4, 2025 (English PDF) - “Our Post-Tariff Takeaways”
By: Marketplace – April 3, 2025 - “What to Know About the Latest China Tariffs and What They Mean for Prices”
By: NYT – April 10, 2025 - “Trump is Already Slowing Global Trade as Companies Pause Orders”
By: Bloomberg – April 10, 2025
Joseph Balagtas, Purdue University
“10 Grocery Articles Likely to See Higher Prices Due to Prices”
By: NPR – April 4, 2025
“Food prices will also be affected by
other factories related to prices, such as higher costs for Canada
fertilizers and a lower US dollar. A main point to remember here is that
the prices specific to the country and specific to food will not tell
the whole story. This is a great change in policy that there will be
wider implications.”
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Jada Thompson, University of Arkansas
David Anderson, Texas A&M University
“’Egg prices came down 50%’”
By: Politifact - April
“There is a lag between the retail and
the wholesale price. Retailers ultimately set the final price we see as
consumers. I’d expect a few weeks to fully transition the price. It
takes some time to move products off the shelf that were purchased at a
higher price, but as they do the prices will start coming down."
“The Trump administration’s steps are
good moves, but they are more beneficial long term. Neither Trump nor
former President Joe Biden should get credit or blame. The whole problem
here is the occurrence of bird flu. If that would not have happened we
would not have seen this kind of increase in egg prices."
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Christopher Barrett, Cornell University
“'Anxious': US Farmers See Tariffs Threaten Earnings”
By: Yahoo! Finance – April 5, 2025
"The loss of this market is a very big
deal, because it's expensive to find other buyers. During Trump's
escalating tariff war in his first presidency, China was the only
target, and therefore the only country retaliating."
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Jada Thompson, University of Arkansas
“Egg Prices Inch Downward”
By: Talk Business – April 9, 2025
”Consumers may have to wait before
seeing lower prices at the grocery store. In the same way that just
because the barrel price of oil goes down does not mean that gas prices
immediately go down, there’s a delay here.”
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Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tessa Conroy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Eau Claire County Scores High on State 'Prosperity Index'”
By: Volume One – April 3, 2025
“Historically speaking, Wisconsin is a
relatively prosperous place, they wrote: “We find Wisconsin is at the
center of the largest concentration of community-level prosperity in the
United States, routinely faring better than the national average on all
four dimensions we use to measure place prosperity.”
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Craig Carpenter, Michigan State University
“Communities Combat Lansing Area’s Lingering Impact of Redlining, Environmental Racism”
By: The State News – April 8, 2025
“We find that redline mapping reduced
future incomes of Black children born into redline map cities by 7
percent, and on the other hand, it increased white people's incomes by
about 3 percent and increased white people's housing values by 35
percent.”
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Lotanna Emediegwu, Manchester Metropolitan University
“How Windfalls From Commodity Price Booms Come Back to Bite Exporters”
By: The Conversation – April 9, 2025
“When the wholesale prices of
essential goods like food or oil suddenly rise, it can cause deep shifts
in the economy that upend trade balances and hike inflation rates. This
is known as a commodity price boom.”
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Colin Carter, University of California, Davis
“Tariffs To Have Widespread Impact On California Businesses”
By: KQED - April 4, 2025
“During the last trade war with China,
California growers suffered. A perfectly good example is tree nuts.
They had a very large share in the China market prior to the 2018-2019
trade war launched by President Trump. The US market share in China for
tree nuts at that time was over 90%. The trade war caused China to
retaliate and raise its own tariffs against the U.S. and against
California. And that market share of tree nuts going to China fell from
94% to 53%. And what happened was that China increased its own
production to a certain extent, but they also pivoted to other
countries. And that market share has not come back.”
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Ryan Cardwell, University of Manitoba
“Tariffs on Canadian Goods Having a 'Devastating Effect,' U.S. Farmers Say”
By: CBC – April 6, 2025
“ A time machine" might be the only
way to fix it. The degree of uncertainty that has been created by the
last few months of policy change in the United States, I think has done
permanent damage. It's all very troubling and creates a lot of
uncertainty and barriers to trade that have not existed for a very long
time between Canada and the U.S."
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David Anderson, Texas A&M University
“Egg Prices Falling Ahead Of Easter Demand”
By: Austin County News – April 8, 2025
“eggs typically reach a seasonal price
peak around Easter, historically followed by price drops at grocery
stores. However, egg prices have already been on a downward trend in
recent months. Wholesale prices fell from $8.51 to $3.84, or 55%,
between March 1 and March 29.”
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Brian Whitacre, Oklahoma State University
“The Fiber Advantage for Homeowners: Faster and Futureproof but Unequal”
By: CNET – April 10, 2025
"With fiber, once it's in the ground,
you're not going to have to dig it back up 50 or even 100 years from
now. It's kind of future-proof from that standpoint. Meaning if you
invest in a property with fiber, you're investing in a technology that
will stand the test of time.
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Zach Rutledge, Michigan State University
Timothy Richards, Arizona State University
John Lowrey, Northeastern University
“Providing Farmworkers With Health Insurance is Worth it For Their Employers − New Research”
By: The Conversation – April 8, 2025
“Agricultural employers who provide
farmworkers with health insurance earn higher profits, even after
accounting for the cost of that coverage. In addition, farmworkers who
get health insurance through their employers are more productive and
earn more money than those who do not.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University
“Eating Healthy Will Likely Get More Expensive Thanks to Tariffs”
By: Everyday Health – April 9, 2025
“Grocery prices have already gone up
more than 20 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic. The new round of
tariffs being imposed now threatens to push food prices even higher.
Since the U.S. relies on other countries for many seasonal food
products, these costs will ultimately get passed on to American
consumers.”
“All those countries are subject to
the 10 percent baseline tariff, and that means the price of coffee beans
and a cup of coffee at our favorite café will likely rise. For many
foods or beverages, when the price of an item goes up, we can often find
a suitable less expensive substitute. Not so with coffee — and that
makes a rise in cost difficult, especially for people whose food budget
is already stretched think.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
Lauren Chenarides, Colorado State University
Ted Jaenicke, Pennsylvania State University
“How Groceries are Priced”
By: WBUR on Point – April 8, 2025
“The food industry is grappling with
some Trump administration policies such as higher tariffs. U.S.
companies are scrambling to make sense of what this announcement means
and where they might be sourcing products.”
“So what does it cost to produce those
items? We have to think about the actual transportation costs. When we
go to the grocery store, there were a lot of steps along the way that
got those products to the store. And then we have to think about all the
operating expenses that retailers have to cover, which includes
anything from keeping their lights on, employing people, and covering
for things that maybe people don't understand as intimately, like
spoilage.”
“Labor costs, especially for
particular items in the supermarket, that is a real driving factor. And
then supply chain fragilities. How sensitive of the supply chain is to
disruption.”
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