Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee
“Soybean Export Market Still Meager for US Farmers”
By: Arkansas Online – December 12, 2025
“In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization and gained better access to globalized trade with the organization's members, including the U.S. From there, growth in China's tourism economy and middle class spurred increased demand for meat protein, heightening the country's need for animal feed in the form of U.S. soybeans.”
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Gerald Mashange, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“The Distribution of Debt Burdens and Servicing Costs for Illinois Grain Farms Across Interest Rate Cycles”
By: Successful Farming – December 12, 2025
“While half of grain farms maintained strong levels of financial efficiency as measured by interest expense ratios of 5% or less throughout the 2019-2024 period, the most leveraged operations—those above the 50th percentile—have seen their average debt servicing costs rise into the cautionary range (5-10%), with some in the vulnerable range (above 10%).”
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Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia - Athens
“Trump Administration Slashes Georgia Migrant Farmworker H-2A Wages”
By: Ledger-Enquirer – December 16, 2025
“Georgia takes in a disproportionately large number of H-2A workers relative to other, bigger states. That's due, in part, to Georgia farms producing more labor-intensive crops. Many are small and medium-sized operations that can't afford to turn to mechanization as an alternative to bringing guest workers in.”
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Jeffrey Dorfman, North Carolina State University
“U.S. ICE Appears to Back off Farm Raids as Trump Allows More Foreign Ag Workers”
By: Wisconsin State Farmer – December 14, 2025
“The changes will be a boon to the state’s farmers. The move to lower the H-2A wages by the Trump administration will be very well received by growers in North Carolina and will save farmers tens of millions of dollars statewide. For many farmers, it will turn money-losing crops into money-making crops, if prices stay about where they are now.”
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Paul Mitchell, University of Wisconsin - Madison
“Local Educator Discusses Trump Administration's $12 Billion in Aid for American Farmers”
By: WXOW – December 15, 2025
“It will help a lot—especially with cash flow issues—because by then, they will be finishing up paying for a lot of the inputs for the '26 crops. It will be nice to get some cash flow in from not selling your crop from the payments.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “Op-ed:
What Affordability Really Means for Families and Farmers This Holiday
Season”
By: Civil Eats – December 15, 2025 - "Food Costs Rise, Holiday Cheer
Falls"
By: U.S. News - December 18, 2025 - "How Do
Chain Restaurants Offer Unlimited Pasta in This Economy?"
By: NPR - December 16, 2025
Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
“What’s For Dinner? If it’s Beef, It’ll Cost You”
By: The Christian Science Monitor – December 17, 2025
“As U.S. beef production drops, the meatpacking industry has been trying to produce more beef from the cattle it slaughters. By historic standards, we’re still producing a lot of beef. We’re just doing it with fewer cows.”
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Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“The Rivalry Between the US. U.S. and China Pressures Latin American Governments and Reduces Margin For Non-Alignment”
By: La Manana – December 17, 2025
"The China-U.S. trade war continues to reorder the global geopolitical map marked by multipolarity and where multilateral rules continue to lose relevance. In this context, the Asian country remains a central actor, but it will have to adapt to “a more disputed environment."
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Zach Rutledge, Michigan State University
- "Ag Labor Shortages Cause Higher
Food Prices, Study Finds"
By: Successful Farming - December 18, 2025 - "Despite New Aid, Farmers Say Labor
Shortages Significantly Driving Up Prices"
By: Fox17 - December 17, 2025 - "Farm Labor Shortages Drive Higher
Food Prices, Michigan State Research" Finds"
By: Brownfield - December - 17, 2025 - "Ag Labor Shortages Cause Higher
Food Prices, Study Finds"
By: Iowa Capital Dispatch - December 17, 2025
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