Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University
“Are Tariffs Raising Your Farm Input Costs?”
By: Iowa Soybean Association – March 5, 2026
"Tariffs have certainly impacted selling prices, but what about the price of inputs? Dr. Sandro Steinbach explains how the cost of production has changed for farmers and what we can expect for exports."
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Sandro Steinbach, North
Dakota State University
Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
“NDSU Study Shows Difficult Situation For Dry Bean Growers”
By: AG Week – March 3, 2026
“Northarvest Bean Growers Association requested the $30,000 study called “Trade, Input Costs and Net Revenue Snapshot for Dry Beans." The report was prepared by Sandro Steinbach and Shawn Arita, both NDSU Agriculture Risk Policy directors.”
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Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
“It Is Not Too Late to Turn This Around': Minnesota Farmers Demand Trade Fix As $50 Billion in Losses Push US Agriculture Toward Widespread Collapse”
By: MSN Money – March 6, 2026
“Those include the costs for fertilizers, costs for chemicals, for machinery products, for machinery inputs that have run up in inflation over the past few years.”
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William Ridley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Illinois Families May Not See Direct Tariff Refunds, Expert Warns”
By: WCIA – March 3, 2026
“While the Supreme Court ruling is significant, the logistics of returning funds are far from straightforward. I think one of the reasons the Supreme Court didn’t rule about the refunds is that it’s just such a mess trying to figure out how to pass the money back to the people it’s owed to.”
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Shadi Atallah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Management Practices Can Enhance Soil Microbiome Functions in Plant Defense”
By: Ag Update – March 5, 2026
“As economists, we typically survey farmers and ask whether they would adopt a practice given a hypothetical outcome. Here we had the opportunity to link the whole sequences from beliefs to practices to lab-measured microbiome outcomes to economic consequences. This is very novel and exciting."
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Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Do Elections Shape India’s Rural Infrastructure Programmes?”
By: Basis Point – March 12, 2026
”Even programmes designed to be rules-based and insulated from political discretion can still bend subtly to electoral incentives. New research on India’s rural roads programme suggests that elections shape more than how much infrastructure gets built. They also influence when projects are approved and which ones move up the queue.”
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Rabail Chandio , Iowa State University
- “Iowa
Farmland Sale Hits Record $32,000 Per Acre in Sioux County”
By: Successful Farming – December 3, 2025 - “How has
farmland leasing changed?”
By: Illinois Farmer Today – November 18, 2026 - “As
Farmers Face Falling Incomes, Are Land Prices Next?”
By: Iowa Public Radio – October 9, 2025
Alexis Villacis, The Ohio State University
“‘I Took Two Bites And Had to Spit it out’: Candy Makers Are Phasing Out Real Cocoa in Chocolate”
By: The Guardian – March 11, 2026
“The volatile cocoa market is, in fact, a major factor in chocolate pricing. Since 2020, the climate crisis has led to a cycle of droughts and floods in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, which, combined, produce 70% of the world’s chocolate. This led to diseases that destroyed the cocoa plantations and decimated the cocoa supply.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “Can
Price Caps Bring Down Grocery Bills?”
By: Marketplace – March 12, 2026 - “How the
Iran War and Surging Oil Prices Are Affecting Consumers at the Gas Pump
and Beyond”
By: AP News – March 11, 2026 - “The
Price of Eggs is Down More Than 40% Since 2025”
By: Marketplace – March 11, 2206 - “War in
the Middle East is Pushing Up Agricultural Commodities’ Prices”
By: Marketplace – March 9, 2026
David Ortega, Michigan
State University
Zachariah Rutledge, Michigan State University
“ICE Raids Are Reported To Have 'Chilling Effects' On Farmers — And It Will Impact Groceries”
By: Huff Post – March 9, 2026
“It depends on where you live… Currently, we’re seeing anecdotal reports of localized disruptions, but not broad, national‑level indicators that would suggest a systemic impact on food availability or prices.”
“Even if the data — or what’s showing up on shelves — hasn’t caught up everywhere, some workers are staying home rather than risking getting swept up in a crackdown.”
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Ricky Volpe, California
Polytechnical State University
David Ortega, Michigan State University
“Oil and Fertilizer Prices Are Climbing. Your Grocery Bill May Follow”
By: Fortune – March 13, 2026
“Energy is one of the most critical inputs for the food supply chain, which means the impacts of the war could show up on your grocery receipt. There’s a very strong correlation between the movement of energy prices and the movement of food prices. We’ve seen oil top $100 a gallon before and that happened to coincide with significant food price inflation.”
“However, prices aren’t expected to increase just yet. It could take time to see any impact in the short-term. “There’s a lag between when the shock happens and when you see the full effect on your food prices. It could be the better part of a full year before we’re seeing the full impact show up at the grocery store.”
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Gregory Ibendahl, Kansas State University
“Kansas State Warns Fuel Prices May Climb”
By: Iowa Ag Connection – March 6, 2026
“Based on the latest oil price increase, gasoline prices could reach $3.10 to $3.16 per gallon within about a month. Gasoline prices often follow oil price movements quickly, sometimes within the following week. However, the effects may continue for several weeks when uncertainty in oil-producing regions remains high.”
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Craig Carpenter, Michigan State University
“The Lasting Impacts of Now-Illegal Housing Discrimination”
By: WZZM13 – February 26, 2026
“The term was actually originally popularized in the 1960s by civil rights activists, housing rights activists, when they were fighting against behavior, discriminatory behavior by banks and lenders. But more recently, it's become associated with behavior by the federal government in the 1930s."
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Jaime Luke, Michigan State University
“Will Coloradans See Higher Beef Prices if JBS Workers Go on Strike?”
By: Canon City Daily Record – March 13, 2026
“When we think about this plant closing, that changes the location of where cattle are processed, but it doesn’t change that we have such a low number. A reduction in processing capacity helps other facilities run more volume.”
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