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New ARPC White Paper Examines Crop Insurance and Nitrogen Reduction Under Elevated Fertilizer Prices

June 5, 2026

New ARPC Report Examines Size and Growth of the U.S. Crop Insurance Portfolio

June 1, 2026

ARPC Participates in Roundtable During Senator Hoeven Visit Focused on Agricultural Policy and Export Opportunities

May 27, 2026

New Study Introduces a Firm-Level Threshold for Managing Market Concentration

May 22, 2026

Joint research offers new insights into how firm expansion shapes market concentration in U.S. hog packing.

New ARPC Study Suggests Symmetric Retaliation to U.S. Tariff Increases in the Agri-Food Sector May Backfire

May 5, 2026

New ARPC White Paper Examines the Impact of Over-Quota Sugar Imports on U.S. Prices and Producer Revenues

April 24, 2026

New ARPC White Paper Examines Proposition 12 Impacts on Pork Prices, Market Segmentation, and Consumption

April 17, 2026

ARPC Economists Featured in Agri-Pulse on Fertilizer Supply Risks

April 8, 2026

New ARPC White Paper Examines Potential Impact of the 2026 Hormuz Strait Closure on North Dakota Crop Profitability

March 31, 2026

New ARPC White Paper Examines Use of Feeder Cattle Livestock Risk Protection Insurance in Kansas

February 10, 2026

NDSU Expert Quoted in The New York Times on Trade-Related Impacts to U.S. Agriculture

January 29, 2026

Dr. Shawn Arita provides expert economic analysis on farm income losses amid ongoing trade tensions.

New ARPC White Paper Estimates Additional Base Acres Under OBBBA for Crop Year 2026

January 27, 2026

ARPC Expert Featured on Fryar Price Risk Management Center of Excellence Podcast: How USDA’s EARP Rule Could Reshape Prevented Planting Insurance

January 23, 2026

New ARPC White Paper Examines Economic and Risk Management Implications of Prevented Planting Buy-Up Elimination Under EARP

January 20, 2026

New ARPC White Paper Examines Economic Impacts of Prevented Planting Buy-Up Elimination Under EARP

January 7, 2026

ARPC Economist Finds Prevented Planting Buy-Up Elimination Raises Producer Costs and Limits Flexibility

New ARPC Study Finds Routine Actuarial Updates Can Significantly Reduce Taxpayer Costs in Crop Insurance

January 6, 2026

ARPC Economist Finds Routine Actuarial Updates Can Significantly Reduce Taxpayer Costs in Crop Insurance

NDSU Agricultural Risk Policy Center Partners with Acres.com to Advance Farmland Research

December 2, 2025

Partnership Announcement

ARPC Economist Presents Research at NBER Conference on Agricultural Risk Management

November 21, 2025

ARPC Senior Research Economist Yifei Zhang presented a new study

ARPC Expert Quoted in Bloomberg U.S. Edition: Market Pressures on U.S. Soybean Producers

October 9, 2025

Dr. Shawn Arita offers expert insight on record-low soybean basis levels and market pressures across the Midwest.

New Seminar: ARPC’s Dr. Matthew Gammans Speaks at Grand Challenge on Grain Storage Innovation

October 6, 2025

A closer look at the real challenges behind grain storage.

New ARPC Co-Authored Research: Measuring the Revenue Risk Reduction of Supplemental Crop Insurance Policies

September 24, 2025

Supplemental crop insurance policies can cut farmers’ revenue risk by over 80%, new ARPC research finds.