David Ortega, Michigan
State University
William Masters,Tufts University
“Why Are Wholesale Vegetable Prices Spiking, and What's That Mean for Consumers?”
By: Marketplace – August 14, 2025
“Over a third of our vegetables are imported. On average, those veggies are incurring higher tariffs than a year ago. Things like tomatoes, asparagus, cauliflower, cucumbers. Mexican tomatoes, which are most of the fresh tomatoes sold in the U.S., are taxed at 17%. The PPI report only includes domestically produced vegetables, not imports. But by limiting overall supply. Tariffs can cause homegrown veggie prices to rise too.”
“ Wholesale prices — that is, what your grocery store pays to source those veggies — rose a whopping 38.9%. One reason? Wholesale vegetable prices are just volatile… So this is a number that just bounces up and down like a cardiac chart at the doctor's office. And the current bounce up is not outlandish.”
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Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
- “Is
Making Public Transportation Free a Good Idea?”
By: Rochester Beacon – August 6, 2025 - “Why
Corruption Makes Universal Basic Income Better Than Targeted Welfares“
By: Basis Point – August 5, 2025
Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
“China Trade Still Uncertain As Administration Announces Deals”
By: Iowa Farmer Today – August 17, 2025
“These trade deals help diffuse the tension and bring more certainty for many sectors, including agriculture… while the 15% tariff on European Union goods coming into the United States is lower than numbers mentioned in negotiations, it is still higher than the previous average tariff rate, meaning importing goods from Europe will cost more. It’s lower than expected, but it’s still an increase in the cost and trade barriers relative to half a year ago.”
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Jerome Dumortier, Indiana University Indianapolis
“Why Higher Beef Prices Aren’t Actually Good News for Climate Change”
By: Sentient Media – August 11, 2025
“Beef consumption in the U.S. is what’s called very inelastic. Even if prices increase — and we do see an increase in beef prices right now — there is not really a decline in the demand.”
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Christopher Wolf, Cornell University
“Half of Farmers Are Over Retirement Age. Is Our Food System at Risk?”
By: The Review – August 12, 2025
“The broader consequences aren’t yet fully known. It's not clear that it's really a food security issue, It's more about a way of life as far as keeping the farms around. Farms end up being a major economic driver in rural communities, so if you don't have as many farms around, then you lose local businesses.”
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Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Decarbonize Agriculture By Expanding Policies Aimed at Low-Carbon Biofuels”
By: Seed Daily – August 15, 2025
"Biofuel markets can be a pathway decarbonize agriculture as a whole. Currently, our biofuel policies don't reward farmers for adopting climate-smart practices. For example, they treat all corn grown for the corn-ethanol market the same, whether or not the farmers adopt those types of practices. By accounting for differences in practices implemented at the farm level and paying a premium for corn grown with climate-smart practices for corn ethanol, biofuel policies can incentivize adoption of these practices."
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