Ricky Volpe, California Polytechnical State University
“Iran Roils Loyal GOP Voters”
By: Politico – March 23, 2026
“The waiver could have an effect on the margins but isn’t “a solution to the structural problems caused by the war. The U.S. already makes most of the fertilizer it uses, so the pain points for this year’s season are mostly affecting specific fertilizers we import. The Jones Act might provide a little relief there, but it wouldn’t really address any of the major inflationary concerns I have about the war.”
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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 16, 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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Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University
“UC ANR: U.S.-China Trade Conflict Harms California Farming Communities as New Study Finds a 64% Drop in Value of California Agricultural Exports in 2025”
By: News Break – March 19, 2026
"the top 13 California agricultural commodities exported to China fell from an average total annual value of around $1.55 billion in 2024 to $554 million in 2025 – a 64% decline in a single year."
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Alexis Villacis, The Ohio State University
“Chocolate Candy Becoming A Bitter Pill To Swallow Due To Worldwide Cocoa Shortage”
By: The Main Wire – March 12, 2026
“Chocolate companies are replacing cocoa with other types of things, like more milk or more almonds or other types of coatings. The cocoa shortage is due to environmental challenges across the globe.”
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Rabail Chandio, Iowa State University
- “Ag Land
Record Set In Sioux County; NW Iowa Values Highest In State”
By: KWIA Radio – January 2, 2026 - “Farmers Still the Ones Buying
Farmland”
By: KWIA Radio – December 30, 2025
David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “The
Economics Cost of Trump’s Migrant Crackdown”
By: Financial Times - March 24, 2026 - “Rising
Oil Prices Could Increase Food Costs—But Hoarding Groceries ‘Makes a Bad
Situation Worse,’ Economist Says”
By: CNBC – March 27, 2206
Jeffrey Dorfman, North Carolina State University
“NC Scholars Among Those Supporting States’ Suit Against Trump Tariffs”
By: Carolina Journal – March 23, 2026
“Contrary to the purpose and limited delegation of Section 122, President Trump has invoked this statute to impose immense and ever-changing tariffs on whatever goods entering the United States he chooses and for whatever reasons he finds convenient.”
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Chad Hart, Iowa State University
“Fertilizer Prices Bring More Pain For American Farmers Amid War in Iran”
By: Channel 3000 – March 23, 2026
“While the broader American economy is on solid footing, the agricultural economy’s been in a recession… Low crop prices over the past three years and rising farm bankruptcies following the pandemic. The crisis in crops is so severe that farmers actually lose money growing corn, oats, rice and other staples.”
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Daniel Sumner, University of California, Davis
“How the War in Iran Is Impacting Fertilizer Supplies, Food Prices”
By: KQQED – March 27, 2026
“Farmers don’t get up in the morning and say, holy smoke, I better buy some fertilizer. They will have contracted and actually purchased and taken delivery of fertilizer in the middle of the winter. Much of what we’re talking about with fertilizer will be decisions that people are making months, maybe six months from now, many of them for the 2027 planting decision.”
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Christopher Barrett, Cornell University
“Raspberry Prices Double, Largely Due to Iran War”
By: Newser – March 27, 2026
"Raspberries are a really nice microcosm of several different economic layers threaded together that were in place before the conflict in Iran. The result: skimpy selection, erratic quality, and sticker shock. One shopper's current strategy: wait for sales—and skip raspberries when "the price is crazy."
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