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 ...

-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 ...

As we head into 2026, food prices in the United States have stabilized compared to a few years ago, but uncertainty and the cumulative effects of past inflation persist. While inflation has moderated ...

-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, ...

-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 ...

Brady Hardiman, associate professor of forestry and natural resources and sustainability engineering and environmental engineering, has been named a 2026 University Faculty Scholar for his research in ...

Only 14% of respondents indicated that their farm operations were better off in May than they had been a year ago. Looking ahead to the next 12 months, 22% of respondents expect their farm to be ...

Indiana corn planting reached 76% as of May 24, up from 67% the previous week - right in line with last year (74%) and the 5-year average (76%) (Figure 1). We didn't get started until around May 9, ...

Purdue’s Agricultural Economics Department covers a wide array of issues from development, trade, macroeconomics policy implications, agribusiness, production and consumption all the way to ...

This is a series of pages that identify the major forage grass and legume species of Indiana and the North Central States. Digitized photos and descriptions of the species characteristics are included ...

Purdue researchers in the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering and Science are fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation to advance AI applications through one-year seed grants totaling ...

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 ...