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Consumer Food Insights survey assesses 20205 grocery spending — 21 January 2026

Consumers made substantial changes to their grocery shopping in 2025, largely driven by economic pressures, according to the December Consumer Food...

AI helps find trees in a forest: Researchers achieve 3D forest reconstruction from remote sensing data — 20 January 2026

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies....

Why Spring Start was the right beginning — 16 January 2026

Raised in Greentown, Indiana, a town just east of Kokomo, Hunter Foland grew up surrounded by agriculture, community and a strong connection to...

Research uses radar to expose sky’s organized, living habitat — 15 January 2026

When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or...

Rooted in sustainability: Growing a future in food and farming — 15 January 2026

For Natalie Nenneker from Wadesville, Indiana, Purdue Agriculture offered the perfect place to turn a lifelong love of nature into a meaningful...

Purdue Agriculture athletes honored for academic performance — 14 January 2026

Two Purdue Agriculture student athletes were named Academic All-Big Ten Honorees for the fall sports season. The Academic All-Big Ten team...

The College of Agriculture welcomes two new faculty members for Spring 2026 semester — 13 January 2026

Camila Nicolli, research assistant professor of mycotoxin fungal biology in the Department of Plant Pathology, and Matheus Zavadinack, research...

Portable device detects pathogens’ diverse settings — 13 January 2026

Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on farms and in food...

2025 Top Midwestern weather events — 12 January 2026

From floods to fall drought to 20-foot icicles, the Midwest experienced some record-breaking weather events in 2025.

Sticking together under stress: NSF grant brings plant biologists and engineers together to discover how tissues stay connected — 07 January 2026

Daniel Szymanski, professor of Purdue’s Departments of Botany and Plant Pathology and Biological Sciences, and Thomas Siegmund, professor in...

Farmer sentiment drifts lower as trade uncertainty hangs over agriculture — 06 January 2026

Farmer sentiment dipped slightly in December, with the Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer dropping 3 points to 136. The decline was...

What people clicked, watched and read in 2025 — 05 January 2026

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