Driven by a mission to change how Americans eat, Monica Stampfli, a Food Science alumna, turned her early passion for nutrition into a career leading research and development at one of the nation’s ...

Luping Xu is proud to be from Ningbo, a port city in eastern China with a long history of education and innovation. So when she arrived at Purdue ...

A curated collection of educational and research-driven publications designed to inform and support a broad audience. Check out our active publications for the latest information, and explore archived ...

Xiaomeng Liu, a computer engineer and postdoctoral scholar for the AAPF and Institute for Plant Sciences, has built a computer algorithm to use 2D ...

The Ag Economy Barometer project provides a sense of the health of the agriculture economy monthly. The index is developed through a survey of producers. Below you can find the historical indices for ...

Pascuzzi, a botany and plant pathology professor, has been named head of Purdue University’s Department of Horticulture and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. soybean harvest began in September without any orders from the world’s largest buyer: China. American producers are harvesting a crop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates at ...

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 ...

State-wide average farmland prices once again hit a new record in 2025, according to the recent Purdue Farmland Value and Cash Rent Survey. The average price of top quality farmland is $14,826, up 3.0 ...