Andrew Hultgren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Climate Change is Coming for Your Bananas”
By: Time - August 18, 2025
“Very hot days… even for small amounts of time during the entire growing season, can cause large losses in the yield you get from a given plot of land at the end of the growing season.”
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Read more on: Time
Joseph Janzen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Record Corn Harvest: Why Farmers Aren’t Celebrating”
By: News Nation – August 21, 2025
“Unfortunately, lower corn prices aren’t expected to provide much relief at the grocery store. We might see a little bit of relief, but it’s going to be relatively muted. That’s because there are so many other factors that determine grocery prices, many of which are facing upward pressure right now.”
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Read more on: News Nation or
MSN Money, Yahoo! News
Wenhui Feng, Tufts University
“Dollar Store Food Shopping Isn't Derailing American Diets: Study”
By: ABC News – August 11, 2025
"Purchases directly from dollar stores were less healthy, but even households that bought a lot from dollar stores had overall diets similar in healthfulness to those who bought less -- suggesting they may be getting healthier options from other places.”
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Read more on: ABC News or Science Magazine, The Hill
Shuoli Zhao, University of Kentucky
“UK Study: Cereals For Children Becoming Less Healthy”
By: LEX 18 – August 14, 2025
"This is very big topic of children for their health intake, and food intake. It's really under the umbrella of the connections between the market, individual choices, as well as the policy that motivates people to make individual choices.”
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Read more on: LEX 18
Kenneth Burdine, University of Kentucky
“Fast Food Burgers Could Soon Get More Expensive”
By: Newsweek – August 15, 2025
"Beef supplies are likely to remain tight in the near future. A lot of ground beef comes from cull cows and farmers have not been culling as many cows because the calf market has been so strong. We are also not seeing a lot of heifer retention [keeping young females for breeding purposes, for clarity] yet, which will have to happen in order to see the cowherd grow in size."
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Read more on: Newsweek
Daniel Mooney, Colorado State University
“Colorado River Water Conservation Program Remains Stalled in US House”
By: Colorado Sun - August 20, 2025
“Flexibility is important… There are a lot of programs that recommend fallowing or land retirement, but this is saying we need some kind of middle-ground.”
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Read more on: Colorado Sun or Colorado Politics
David Ortega, Michigan State University
“Trump Faces Hamburger Headache After Pledge to Cut Food Prices”
By: The Telegraph – August 16, 2025
“Food prices are top of mind for many consumers, and they played a critical role in the last election. And with high beef prices, we have to keep in mind that we are a beef-consuming country.”
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Read more on: The Telegraph
Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis
“Economist Warns That Current Ag and Food Policies Risk Global Supply Shortfall”
By: AgWeek – August 19, 2025
“Food demand is likely to grow significantly through the century. But we face considerable headwinds to expanding supply enough to keep up with it.”
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Read more on: AgWeek
Hunter Biram, University
of Arkansas
Jesse Tack, Kansas State University
“Researcher Links Hurricane Risk to Higher Cost of Crop Insurance in Mid-South”
By: The Pine Bluff Commercial – August 22, 2025
"I began to study the price of crop insurance across the United States, and what I noticed was, there were vast differences in prices between what folks in the South and primarily the Mid-South would pay versus those in the upper Midwest. One thing that I begin to think about and do some research on is what's different about the Mid-South?"
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Read more on: The Pine Bluff Commercial
Jackson Somers, University of Connecticut
“Is Composting Really Beneficial? The Science Behind the Complex Calculation”
By: Science Mag – August 22, 2025
“Composting programs result in an average weekly decrease of approximately 2.3 pounds of organic waste per household. However, this reduction accounts for only about 30% of the typical food waste generated by a U.S. household weekly, highlighting significant gaps in participation and compliance. Unlike cities with enforcement mechanisms, many municipalities rely on voluntary participation, which influences the overall effectiveness of these programs.”
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