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According to The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021, 2.37 billion people regularly face food security challenges. Additionally, the USDA Economic Research Service [...]

Farm Employment and Farm Workers The 115,000 U.S. farm establishments registered with unemployment insurance (UI) agencies hire about 2.5 million farm workers some time e [...]

Food shoppers are confronted with an extensive amount of information. Most often, consumers focus mainly on the price, brand, the type and extent of nutrition offered, an [...]

It is estimated that the world population will reach 9 billion by 2050 (Boukid, 2021); meeting the food needs of this growing population is a global challenge. Meanwhile, [...]

Food waste has commanded growing attention in recent years, with recent estimates suggesting that people fail to consume as much as 40% of food grown globally (Parfitt, B [...]

In late 2021, a committee appointed by the leadership of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association developed a white paper on the grand challenge of ensuring tha [...]

U.S. solar energy production increased threefold from 2017 to 2022 (Hodge, 2023) as the federal government aimed to achieve carbon-free electricity by 2035 to combat clim [...]

In the United States, the inflation rate hovered around 2% for decades, aligning with the Federal Reserve’s target for a stable economy (US BLS, 2024). However, the disru [...]

Commercial banks are the leading lenders of non–real estate debt to farmers, with $72 billion debt (41%) of $174 billion total non–real estate debt, and the second leadin [...]

While conventional tillage or full-width tillage (FT) helps with seed germination and improves crop growth by turning over soil and burying previous crop residues, this p [...]