The twenty-first Consumer Food Insights from Purdue University explores consumer beliefs about brand-name vs. generic or store-brand foods.

Consumer Corner has an admittedly odd history of gleaning wisdom from unexpected places, like lessons from rodents – famous ones, but still rodents.

The topic of data ownership and acceptable use of data in agriculture has ignited fervent debate. For all the time, money, effort, and public discord, it isn’t clear to me that we have even agreed on what data even is.

The Egg Prices dashboard tracks daily prices and trends across the U.S. for different types of eggs, including Cage-Free, Conventional, Free-Range, Organic and Pasture-Raised. 

I have spent most of my career attempting to understand what consumers want from production agriculture. I’ve also worked to foster dialogue among individuals holding differing perspectives on matters such as production methods, animal welfare and other contentious topics.

While Decembers (that’s December in plural form) are often for reflection, Januarys are for new beginnings. Then there’s spring, take April – April showers bring May flowers? April, the start of Q2.

The twentieth Consumer Food Insights from Purdue University looks closer at consumer food beliefs according to political ideology, revisiting the August 2022 focus.

Long, long ago, in springtime, we started into life lessons from Sheldon Cooper.

This presentation analyzes survey results related to consumer perceptions and preferences of soy products. From Jayson Lusk, Trey Malone and Brandon McFadden, this work was conducted for CFDAS and made possible through grants from the United Soybean Board.