Matthew Gammans, North Dakota State University
- “Soybean
Prices Rally on China's Promise to Buy American Beans”
By: Mankato Free Press – December 3, 2025 - “MN
Farmers Cheer Soybean Price Rally. Will it Last?”
By: MPRNews - December 2, 2025 or KLFDRadio
Pedro Magaña Sáenz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
“Building Trust and Transparency Via Text Message: How Digital Receipts Change Smallholder Markets”
By: World Bank Blogs – December 8, 2025
“Digital receipts cost little to implement, leveraging basic SMS technology already in farmers’ pockets. By converting paper logs into real-time information, they reduce the space for opportunism in markets where monitoring and formal enforcement are weak. As rural connectivity expands across Sub-Saharan Africa, tools like SMS receipts can be scaled across value chains where lack of transparency still limits accountability and efficiency.”
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Ricky Volpe, California Polytechnic State University
“Americans Feeling the Pinch of Rising Prices”
By: Yahoo! Finance YouTube – December 18, 2025
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Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“The Importance of Separating the Short and Long Run Effects of Trade”
By: Rochester Business Journal – December 11, 2025
“The research shows that U.S. local labor markets that were more exposed to Chinese imports suffered sharp short run increases in unemployment and reductions in labor force participation.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “Michigan
Farmers to Lose $167M in Exports This Year as Tariffs Raise Costs”
By: MLLive – December 10, 2025 - “Oklahoma’s
Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods”
By: Investigate Midwest – December 8, 2025
Antonina Broyaka, Kansas State University
“Why U.S. Farmers Should Still Care About Ukraine”
By: Farm Progress – December 4, 2025
“Despite being under siege since early 2022, Ukraine remains a significant exporter of several key commodities, including corn, wheat and sunflower oil… However, the war is still in place, and there is still a lot of uncertainty.”
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Marin Skidmore, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Farmer Networks Drive Strong Gains in Cover Crop Adoption”
By: Kansas Ag Connection – December 5, 2025
“Farmers may have an interest in trying new practices, but there’s a steep learning curve and high costs involved. Programs like this, where farmer leaders adopt practices that can be seen and communicated throughout a region, can really inspire their neighbors to take action.”
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Cheryl DeVuyst, Oklahoma State University
“How the Beef Checkoff Drives Demand: Insights from Cheryl DeVuyst”
By: Oklahoma Farm Report – December 5, 2025
“Consistency, taste, and nutrition of U.S. beef keep global customers coming back. They want it no matter what price we have on it.”
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Julian Alston, University of California, Davis
“Food Will Be More Affordable — if We Double Funds For Agriculture Research Now”
By: Nature.com – December 9, 2025
“Food prices are increasing almost everywhere. Disruptions and declines in food production owing to climate extremes are part of the reason. But our analysis of global spending on the innovations that underpin food production and the processes that get it to people’s tables shows major shifts in investment in agricultural science. These could help to explain why demand for food is getting out of balance with supply — and why things are likely to get worse.”
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Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
“The Next 18 Months Will Decide Who’s Still Milking in 2030 – Here’s Your Checklist”
By: The Bullvine – December 10, 2025
“This isn’t a temporary consumer preference—it’s a generational dietary shift. People born in the 1980s and 1990s drink significantly less milk than previous generations, and that pattern isn’t reversing.”
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Jennifer Ifft, Kansas State University
“Analysis-US Farmers Say Trump’s $12 Billion aid Package Won’t Cover Losses”
By: Reuters – December 10, 2205
“The $12 billion in aid will "get spread out quite a bit. If you’re in a bad place financially, this is just a bridge."
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Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis
“Will California Farmers Get Their Fair Share of Federal Bailout Money?”
By: Fresno Bee – December 11, 2205
“The USDA did set aside $1 billion of the package that could go for specialty crops, such as wine grapes, that California farmers grow. This round it appears pretty clear that the funds will go mostly to the corn, soybean and wheat guys, the standard program crops.”
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Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee
“Soybeans Have Been a Top U.S. Ag Export for Decades. What Happens When the Top Buyer Stops Buying?”
By: Tennessee Outlook – December 10, 2025
“We learned firsthand that being heavily reliant on China for export sales is only good when things are good…”
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Hyungsun Yim, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“How Extreme Weather Events Affect Agricultural Trade Between US States”
By: Phys.org – December 11, 2025
"With climate change, we're going to experience more intense and more frequent extreme weather events such as drought and flooding, which impact agricultural output. It's important to prepare for ways to mitigate climate shocks to food manufacturing.”
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Joseph Balagtas, Purdue University
“Food insecurity rate jumps to 16% in November”
By: National Hog Farmer – December 11, 2025
“Food insecurity was already prevalent among many SNAP users: We estimate that 36% of SNAP households were food insecure in recent years and months. That figure rose to 46% in November, amid ongoing inflation and disruptions to SNAP caused by the federal government shutdown.”
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