David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “How Do
Grocery Stores Decide Which Products Will Be Loss Leaders?”
By: Marketplace – June 6, 2025 - “Egg
Prices For Consumers Fell to 5-Month Low in May. Here’s Why”
By: CBS News – June 11, 2025
Zach Rutledge, Michigan State University
“DTN/Progressive Farmer Takes Closer Look at Ag Labor Challenges, Solutions”
By: DTN/Progressive Farmer – June 11, 2025
“Over the past five years, he's surveyed around 2,500 farmers, and about half said they couldn't hire all the workers they needed. On average, those farms were running about 20% short on labor… Labor shortages appear across all types of crop-production operations.”
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Charles Martinez, University of Tennessee
“Previewing Friday’s On Feed report from the USDA”
By: Brownfield – May 21, 2025
“I’m always interested to see just where we are in terms of total numbers. Recently released reports from the USDA have noted the indefinite suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico. I would be interested to see if that impacts anything in the Cattle on Feed report, and then does that lead to lower numbers of cattle on feed expectations. It might not be in this report, but it might be the next month’s report that has that number because we’ve lost those cattle.”
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Aaron Smith, University of Tennessee
“Farmers Brace for Impact of Tariffs”
By: Herald Citizen – May 2, 2025
“We see that market squeezed between the expected higher expenses and softened demand for American agricultural exports, especially to China, for many years a top customer for US soybeans and corn.
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Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University
“Young Food Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Face of Rural America”
By: The Conversation – May 22, 2025
“Visit just about any downtown on a weekend and you will likely happen upon a farmers market. Or, you might grab lunch from a food truck outside a local brewpub or winery. Very likely, there is a community-shared kitchen or food entrepreneur incubator initiative behind the scenes to support this growing foodie ecosystem.”
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Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis
“Blue Diamond Sacramento plant is shutting down. Will almond prices go up?”
By: Sacramento Bee – June 10, 2025
“No, there will be no local effects on the market for almonds” as a result of the Blue Diamond Growers plant closure… The trees remain in California and other processing plants can easily cover the local demand.”
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Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
“Rebuilding the Herd Will Take Time”
By: High Plains Journal – June 13, 2025
“Profitability in the near term is sound, but noted the elevated risks tied to higher cattle price exposure and elevated macroeconomic uncertainty tied to beef demand risk is also playing the part… Broader market uncertainty and amount of dollars at stake may give some excitement in expanding and others heartburn in expansion discussions.”
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Roderick Rejesus, North
Carolina State University
Zachary Brown, North Carolina State University
“Study Develops Optimal Cover Crop Adoption Thresholds”
By: Morning Ag Clips – June 15, 2025
“There is a lot of academic literature looking at short-term effects of cover crops, but our contribution here is in thinking about cover crops as a long-term investment. Agronomists seem to mostly agree that cover crops are a worthwhile investment; many economists say they are not. We find some truth to both sides of the argument in this paper: In certain conditions it might be worth it to plant cover crops; in other conditions it might not be worth it.”
“If you’re starting from a place where the soil is degraded, it takes so long to build up better soil conditions that, from an economic perspective, it’s not worth it to plant cover crops,” said Zachary Brown, associate professor of agricultural and resource economics at NC State and a co-author of the paper. “Like other investments, farmers are interested to know how fast the returns are for cover-crops investments.”
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