Purdue’s Agricultural Economics Department covers a wide array of issues from development, trade, macroeconomics policy implications, agribusiness, production and consumption all the way to ...

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This workshop is geared toward farmers, commercial grain storage handlers, pest management professionals and food processing quality-control managers. The goal is to help attendees effectively manage ...

Meat is an important source of proteins and micronutrients in human diets. As a more expensive food source than grains, meat has experienced an increase in per capita consumption along with rising ...

There is a lot of talk about “big data” in agriculture these days. The farm of the future is said to use multispectral imagery, soil and micro-climate sensors, equipment telematics data, and GPS to ...

This is a series of pages that identify the major forage grass and legume species of Indiana and the North Central States. Digitized photos and descriptions of the species characteristics are included ...

The Purdue Agronomy Extension partners with the Midwest Cover Crops Council (MCCC) to help pull together the best resources and guides available related to establishing cover crops, and provide ...

Large swarms of honey bees that suddenly appear on homes, bushes or in yards sometimes send people into shock. This is because a swarm may contain several hundred to several thousand bees that people ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Highly pathogenic avian influenza reached Antarctica’s mainland in early 2024, leaving Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island nations as the only regions on Earth that remain ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Around two-thirds of consumers have used a food-ordering app at least once for takeout, delivery or both, according to the September 2024 Consumer Food Insights Report (CFI).

When Linda Lee received a sample of shellfish from an Alaskan reservation in 2005, she was looking for PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls — a group of chemicals banned in the U.S. in 1979 due to their ...

Before discussing long-term relationships between general inflation and farm input prices, it is important to define key terms. Inflation represents the decline in purchasing power of a currency over ...