Zach Rutledge, Michigan State University
“New on-Demand Webinar Explores Labor Challenges and Opportunities for Growers”
By: Vegetable Grower News – January 28, 2026
“Michigan State University extension economist Zach Rutledge discusses major changes to the H-2A program for 2025, including new Department of Labor rules on Adverse Effect Wage Rates and housing cost deductions, and explains how these updates could affect grower operations.”
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Hunter Biram, University
of Arkansas
Francis Tsiboe, North Dakota State University
“How Could Insured Farmers Adjust to the Expanding Access to Risk Protection (EARP) Rule From USDA?”
By: FRYAR – January 19, 2026
"In this episode, Hunter Biram and special guest Francis Tsiboe explore how USDA’s new Expanding Access to Risk Protection (EARP) rule will reshape prevented planting insurance starting in the 2027 crop year."
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Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
“No. Dakota State Reports How Much Tariffs Have Cost Farmers”
By: Agri Market News – January 22, 2026
"The high pass-through rate may reflect the uncertainty around tariff levels that prevailed around President Donald Trump's April "liberation day" announcement of reciprocal tariffs. It was unclear whether some exporters would be subject to levies above 10% as importers moved to stockpile inventory."
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Shawn Arita, North
Dakota State University
Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University
“NDGGA Leaders Advocate for North Dakota Wheat at MWCA Annual Meeting”
By: NDGGA – January 16, 2026
The Midwest Council on Agriculture (MWCA) recently held its Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., from December 16–18, 2026. MWCA brings together a multi-state coalition of farmers, ranchers, agribusinesses, commodity groups, and agricultural lenders united by shared goals. The organization advocates for strong agricultural and economic policies that support the long-term sustainability of the Midwest’s agricultural industry.
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “States
with Highest -and Lowest- Grocery bills in US”
By: Newsweek – January 29, 2026 - “How Do
Grocers Prepare for a Winter Storm and Have Enough to Restock?”
By: USA Today – January 23, 2026
Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Why do Struggling Students Fail in School?”
By: Substack – January 26, 2206
“Struggling students fail in school because they lack motivation—this idea is so widespread that it often goes unquestioned. In this view, a child who doesn’t complete homework or performs poorly on exams is seen as uninterested, undisciplined, or simply not trying hard enough.”
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Joseph Balagtas, Purdue University
“Food Prices, Economic Strain Reshaped Grocery Shopping in 2025”
By: National Hog Farmer – January 21, 2026
“The majority of respondents, 82%, modified their shopping behaviors. The most common adjustments were seeking sales and discounts, switching to cheaper brands, and reducing nonessential purchases.”
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James Mitchell, University of Arkansas
“Arkansas Expert Says Tyson Layoffs Indicative of Larger Beef Industry Issues”
By: 5 News Online – January 21, 2026
“When you have plants that are that large, that close or decrease in terms of how much they're going to operate, that impacts the entire beef cattle industry. So that's going to impact Arkansas, and that will impact, you know, the beef industry across the United States.”
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Hope Michelson, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kathy Baylis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chungmann Kim, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Global Measures Consistently Underestimate Food Insecurity; One in Five Who Suffer From Hunger May Go Uncounted”
By: Agriamerica -December 12, 2026
"Evaluating the accuracy of these analyses is difficult because IPC are trying to identify crises that are coming in the near term. If they are effective and the humanitarian community responds to their analyses, those crises will be averted or at least lessened. This means that if they are correct, they are in a sense always wrong,"
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Khashi Ghorbani, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“How a Potential Antibiotics Ban Could Affect Apple Growers”
By: Environmental News Network – January 23, 2026
“The majority of antibiotics in plant agriculture are used on fire blight in pear and apple orchards. Growers face a dilemma, because they must treat their trees to protect them, but they run the risk of overusing the pesticides, so the disease develops resistance.”
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Kenneth Burdine, University of Kentucky
“Placements Decline, But Marketings Increase in Latest Cattle on Feed Report”
By: Brownfield News – January 26, 2026
“While it was expected, there’s a reason it is significant. We weren’t importing live cattle from Mexico in December 2024. It’s important to remember that we’re comparing that December 2025 placement number to a month in 2024 when we weren’t importing live cattle from Mexico.”
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Bradley Lubben, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Calls About Financial Strain Are Increasing as Farmers Wait For Federal Assistance”
By: Nebraska Public Radio – January 27, 2026
“Although Nebraska’s net farm income was hitting near record highs, there was a major caveat within the data.When you try and disaggregate net farm income from the market, plus government payments, the government payments are a huge part of the move up in farm income this year.”
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Zach Raff, North Carolina State University
“New USDA Report Explores the Economics of Precision Agriculture in Dairy Farming”
By: Morning Ag Clips - January 27, 2026
“These box robots, they cost around $200,000 a unit. So, if you’re putting those kinds of costs in the operation, people want to see that they’re profitable... Looking at dairy farms that have implemented robotic milking systemsm, the data shows a consistent increase in profitability.”
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