Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
“How Extreme Heat Deepens Rural Undernutrition”
By: Basis Point Insight – April 12, 2026
“Extreme heat during the agricultural growing season in rural India can have several deleterious effects. It can reduce crop yields. When temperatures rise significantly, agricultural productivity declines, lowering the quantity of food that farm households can consume from their own production.”
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Richard Volpe, California
Polytechnical State University
David Ortega, Michigan State University
“Grocery Inflation Slowed in March, But That Doesn't Mean Your Cart is Getting Cheaper”
By: Marketplace – April 13, 2026
“There’s little question that tomatoes is sort of a case study in the ongoing impact of the current administration's tariffs,”
“The canary in the coal mine here are really the perishable food products. They are the least processed, require the most travel, and are time sensitive.”
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Richard Volpe, California Polytechnical State University
“Why BLTs and Salad Just Got More Expensive — Tariffs, War Send Tomato Prices Soaring”
By: CNBC – April 15, 2026
“I do expect there’s more pain on the horizon for tomato prices. While the White House has exempted many agricultural products from tariffs, tomatoes are among the few major specialty crops imported from Mexico that haven’t received an exemption.”
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David Ortega, Michigan State University
- “Beef,
that all-American food, is getting harder for Americans to afford”
By: CBS News – April 13, 2026 - “The
Strait of Hormuz Blockade is Causing a Slow-Moving Food Crisis”
By: The Verge – April 13, 2026 - “Your
Grocery Bill Could Get Even More Expensive As Fuel Prices Climb”
By: Harvest Public Media – April 13, 2026
Christopher Wolf, Cornell University
“Butterfat Production and Protein Demand Fuel US Cheese”
By: Lancaster Farming – April 11, 2026
“Global sales have made space for more production to come online and new U.S. cheeses to be developed while whey has its own markets and demand, a big step up from its former secondary role.”
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Seth Meyer, University of Missouri
“Farmers Grow Wary of USDA as Survey Response Rates Plummet - Columbia Today”
By: National Today – April 10, 2026
“Recent USDA surveys have seen response rates plummet to historic lows. This trend has emerged as farmers grapple with a prolonged downturn in the agricultural economy, potentially fueling distrust in the government agency tasked with supporting their interests.”
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Kenneth Foster, Purdue University
“Rising Oil Prices Expose How Vulnerable US Households Remain to Inflation”
By: CNN – April 12, 2026
“For lower-income households, the delayed effects may be the hardest part. We have households in our country where the percentage of income spent on food is closer to 50%,… And when you add on fuel for heating your home or for transportation for you getting to work, you’re now talking about a sizable percentage of people’s income that’s really not adjustable.”
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Amelia Finaret, Allegheny College
“New USDA Food Pyramid Could Add $1,000 to Your Grocery Bill”
By: USA Today - April 10, 2026
"While animal-sourced foods can provide complete proteins, those sources of nutrition can also be found in cheaper options such as plant-based foods. So instead of buying beef, which is one of the most expensive forms of protein that you can get right now, combining rice and beans or combining any kind of grain with any kind of lentil is another way to get a complete protein."
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Andrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee
“Why BLTs and Salad Just Got More Expensive — Tariffs, War Send Tomato Prices Soaring”
By: CNBC – April 15, 2026
“Tariffs levied on imports of Mexican tomatoes appear to be the primary factor underpinning the recent runup in price.”
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Chad Fiechter, Purdue University
“The Precision Ag Paradox: Why More Tech Doesn’t Always Mean More Profit”
By: Hoosier Ag Today – April 13, 2026
“On average, most precision ag bundles are not associated with improved efficiency. Of the 17 different combinations we examined, only two showed statistically meaningful gains: automated guidance on its own, and the combination of yield monitors with grid soil sampling.”
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Paul Mitchell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Already Under Financial Pressure, Farmers Squeezed Further By Tariffs and Iran War”
By: PBS – April, 2026
"They're very concerned about negative margins driven by low prices and high cost. There's just a liquidity cash crunch for a lot of them and they're just trying to figure out how to deal with everything."
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Allen Featherstone, Kansas State University
“Number of Farm Lenders Shrinks as Loan Volume Increases”
By: Capital Press – April 13, 2026
“A declining number of banks that lend bigger amounts of money points to consolidation, rather than institutions getting out of the agricultural industry altogether.”
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Wendong Zhang, Cornell University
“Trump's Tariffs Dealt an Economic Blow to All 50 States, Study Finds”
By: Fortune – April 15, 2026
“The United States doesn’t have one agricultural trade exposure—it has 50 different ones… When processors face higher input costs, they pass it along. Eventually, the consumer in a New York grocery store is paying more for something that traces back to a trade dispute in Washington—even if New York itself exports very little.”
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Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University
“Colorado’s small rural districts face big financial strains, but anchor communities and have outsized outcomes”
By: CPR News – April 15, 2026
“Schools and health care are the two most critical factors in a small town’s ability to sustain itself. They’re also a primary economic anchor, providing middle-income jobs.”
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Shawn Arita, North Dakota State University
- "Strait
Delays Could Keep Global Fertilizer Flows in Limbo for Months"
By: Red River Farm Network - April 17, 2026 - "Fertilizer
Prices to Stay Elevated Through 2027 Even If Strait of Hormuz Reopens,
Says Analyst"
By: Brownfield - April 10, 2026 - "Iran
Crisis Adds Cost Pressure, Not a Food Shock"
By: Miller Magazine - April 13, 2026 - Will
the Iran crisis lead to another round of food price spikes?
By: CGIAR - April 7, 2026
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