White snow, twinkling lights, brass menorahs, Kwanzaa unity cups and a red-and-green potted poinsettia centered on a table.

This Data Snapshot charts household food insecurity from January 2022 through November 2025. Food insecurity was highest in 2022 and 2023, when inflation reached historical highs and food inflation ...

Growing up in India, when Lavanya Reddivari had a cold, her mother would give her a remedy called haldi doodh in Hindi: warm ...

Table 1 presents machinery cost per acre for farms with less than 250 acres or more than 1000 acres of corn or soybeans in 2024. The “rotation” column averages the information in the corn and soybean ...

Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A new report released by Purdue University’s College of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) projects that ...

Michael Langemeier and James Mintert, Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture Figure 3. Farm Financial Performance Index, January 2021- September 2025. Figure 4. Farm Capital Investment Index, ...

As families across the country begin planning Thanksgiving gatherings, a familiar question looms: how much will this year’s meal cost? While traditions remain constant—the perfectly roasted turkey, ...

Since civilization began, people have taken the plants with the best characteristics for themselves and their land and bred them together each season until they had rows of crops specialized for the ...

This dashboard summarizes U.S. household food insecurity as estimated in the Consumer Food Insights survey, our monthly survey of 1,200 consumers from across the country. The U.S. Household Food ...

Michael Langemeier and James Mintert, Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture Figure 1. Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, October 2015-September 2025. Figure 2. Indices of Current Conditions and ...

As the first month of the fall semester comes to an end, many students are already beginning their search for summer 2026 internships. Internships are important for students to gain hands-on ...