Jada Thompson, University of Arkansas
“Egg prices have plummeted. That’s great news for consumers — and a crisis for farmers”
By: CNN – February 20, 2026
“On average, a farm spends 98 cents to $1.05 to produce a dozen eggs. That often doesn’t include operational costs like packaging and transportation, which have risen in the last year.”
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Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Artificial Intelligence: Why the Biggest Revolution May Be Surprisingly Ordinary”
By: Basis Point – February 19, 2026
“There is no gainsaying the fact that there is a great deal of hype about what artificial intelligence might mean for humanity. On one end of the spectrum lies the belief that AI will solve all human problems and perhaps even make us immortal. On the other is the dystopian fear that AI will immiserize society in ways that we have never seen before.”
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Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
- “US
farmers Are on High Alert After Losses Exceeding $50 Billion And Fear
Widespread Farm Collapse Due to Tariffs, Blocked Exports, and Record
Harvests Driving Down Prices”
By: CPG – February 16, 2026 - “In The
Year of Trump's Tariff, Farmers' Bankruptcy Filings Grow Nearly 50 Percent
in 2025 in the U.S”
By: Dnews – February 14, 2026 - “Minnesota
Farmers Demand Trade Fix as $50B in Losses Has Potential to Push US
Agriculture Toward ‘Widespread Collapse’”
By: News Break – Febraury 14, 2026
Zachariah Rutledge, Michigan State University
- “Survey
Finds Raids Impacted California Farm Production”
By: Ag Alert – February 25, 2026 - “ICE
Crackdown, Especially Fear of Raids, Triggered CA Farmworker Losses,
Survey Shows”
By: Fresno Bee – February 28, 2026
Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Number of U.S. Farms Shrank by 15,000 in 2025”
By: Successful Farming – February 17, 2026
“Consolidation continues to be the biggest factor shaping the number of farms in the state. The high costs farmers face to produce milk continues to make it difficult for small and mid-size farms to be profitable.”
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Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia
“Farmworkers Could Face Declining Wages in Vermont”
By: Valley News – February 17, 2026
“If the government allowed these deductions, they should also audit and check on housing. Only those implementing acceptable housing services should be getting those deductions.”
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Success Amobi-Ndubuisi Okafor, North Carolina A&T University
“WI Economist: Farm Crisis Runs Deeper Than Tariffs”
By: Public News Service – February 17, 2026
“Tariffs are not the real issue. Tariffs exposed weaknesses; they didn't create them. If tariffs were the only problem, fixing trade policy would solve it. But even without tariffs, U.S. farmers are losing competitiveness."
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Frayne Olson, North
Dakota State University
Daniel O'Brien, Kansas State University
“Corn Holds Ground as US Farmers Eye 2026 Cuts”
By: The Pig Site -February 19, 2026
“The market is signaling, ‘We don't want you to cut too many corn acres.’ We don't need as many as last year, but with today's demand base, it's not like we need a huge drop.”
"The soybean market is more of a political football than the corn market right now,"
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Charles Martinez, University of Tennessee
“Recent Price Increases Offer Hope For Tennessee Soybean Farmers After Multi-Year Downturn”
By: WVLT 8 – February 19, 2026
“Farmers were receiving prices that didn’t cover production costs. It was essentially, as they were pulling off crop or if they were planting crop over the last couple of years, it was penciling out already to a loss.”
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Yifei Zhang, North
Dakota State University
Brian Coffey, Kansas State University
“K-State Agriculture Today: 2127 – Livestock Risk Protection for Feeder Cattle…Kansas Cattle Risk Management”
By: Sunflower State Radio – February 26, 2026
“Starting the show is Brian Coffey, K-State agricultural economist, and Yifei Zhang, senior research economist with the Agricultural Risk Policy Center at North Dakota State University, as they discuss research into Kansas producers using Livestock Risk Protection for feeder cattle.”
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