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For former chef Alex Chase, the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) was a natural fit to leverage his experience in the food industry into a new career path focused on food security.

Prices for “food at home” fell for the second straight month – though they’re still well above where they were a year ago.

One item, in particular, may be helping: the price of eggs has tumbled.

Guest writer Brian Buhr writes how the need for agricultural research is at an all-time high, "yet funding for agricultural research and development continues to decline."

A new survey shows a large percentage of high school students are interested in careers that involve agriculture, food, natural resources, and the environment.

MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer talked with two farmland owners and William Lazarus, an extension economist and professor at the University of Minnesota, about farmland transitions and the roles of heirs and renters in Minnesota farm country.

An experiment is underway to evaluate hybrid rye in a full cycle — from hybrid rye, to feed and bedding, to animals, to manure, and back to hybrid rye. U of M Researcher Joel Tallaksen and Professor Bill Lazarus will be evaluating the economics and impacts of the entire system.

A survey of high schools on what’s important to them in their future careers found they prioritize purpose, specifically addressing sustainability, hunger, and environmental concerns.

Paying all workers, disabled or not, the same wage confuses two types of equity

"Without the subminimum wage allowance, even employers who want to hire the disabled will have a disincentive to do so," University of Minnesota professor Carlisle Ford Runge writes.

R&D investment in food and agriculture on the decline, experts say; Asia Pacific now accounts for almost half of world spending on agri-food R&D; China accounts for around 23 per cent of global agri-food R&D spending