-The Strait of Hormuz closure has driven crude oil above $110/barrel and nitrogen fertilizer prices up more than 30% — a severe shock arriving at the worst possible time for spring planting. -However, ...
Meat is an important source of proteins and micronutrients in human diets. As a more expensive food source than grains, meat has experienced an increase in per capita consumption along with rising ...
-Unlike a drought or crop disease, the current shock originates in geopolitics, spills into energy markets and propagates through every link of the food supply chain at once — transportation, ...
-The March 2026 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, released April 10 th by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows the all items CPI rising 0.9 percent for the month on a seasonally adjusted basis, and ...
-Mid-March data collection window — a critical caveat: The PPI survey is conducted on the Tuesday of the week containing the 13th. March prices, therefore, reflect conditions as of approximately March ...
Indiana farmland prices grew at a record pace between June 2021 and June 2022, according to the recent Indiana Farmland Value and Cash Rent Survey. Statewide, the average per acre price for top ...
-The Iran conflict’s energy shock is fundamentally regressive: it falls hardest on the countries and consumers least equipped to absorb it, while wealthier buyers can outbid poorer ones for scarce ...
Bryan Pijanowski, professor in Purdue University’s Department of Forestry and Natural Resources and director of the Center ...
Purdue University’s College of Agriculture is offering donors a powerful opportunity to amplify their impact through the Ro ...
One of the final projects funded by Plant Sciences 2.0, one of Purdue’s Next Moves strategic initiatives, were the new set of ...
Purdue researchers in the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering and Science are collaborating to advance AI applications.
Four years after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, which pushed fertilizer prices to historic highs, the current conflict in the Middle East has once again brought attention to the risks associated ...