Joan Fulton, Associate Professor; and Kevin Andreson, Elizabeth Beetschen, Brian Jones, Michelle Rice, Erica Rosa, Shylea Wingard all current and former Ag. Econ. Graduate Students
Hubbell and Balagtas examine data from 2025 and explain the factors that drove changes to food prices. Looking forward, they discuss projections for food prices in 2026 and the policies and events that will affect them.
Medicaid expansion represents a major injection of federal dollars into local economies. This new brief from Montenovo highlights research on the role of ACA expansion in directing federal funds toward high-need, low-income U.S. counties.
If you had asked me at the beginning of 2025 what this report would look like in the first few months of 2026, my thoughts might not have been safe to print. Now that it is the first few months of 2026, however, I am happy to report that, despite my dire predictions, things are just fine in the Department of Agricultural Economics graduate programs.