Reflections from Consumer Corner #2022
Author: Nicole Olynk Widmar, Associate Head and Professor, Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics
Time flies! As we look back on 2022 here on Consumer Corner, we’re excited to have shared and documented insights from consumer and online media research, lessons from consumers in the (unrelenting, still, seriously?) pandemic-era meets post-pandemic era, decidedly non-traditional takes on management and decision-making, market insights, and our commentary on data, data use, and data analytics. We also delved into multiple video series on carbon markets and difficult conservations in food and agriculture.
In May of 2022, we decided articles were simply too long and less palatable than letters, so we adapted by discontinuing them and switching to consistent weekly letters! In total, we close the year with 48 letters and 5 articles. Below, we’ve pulled them together in one easy-to-access, thematically organized spot so you can catch up on what you might have missed. Enjoy!
| Date |
Title |
| 1-3-2022 |
Well, You’re Also a Liar |
| 1-11-2022 |
I Know Something You Don’t Know |
| 1-17-2022 |
“Do You Trust Me?” |
| 1-20-2022 |
Consumer-Driven Changes in Ag Market Channels |
| 1-24-2022 |
A “Vote” of Confidence |
| 1-31-2022 |
Fat Conversations (in Fluid Milk) |
| 2-7-2022 |
What Meats at the Holiday Meals? A Look at December Holidays 2020 |
| 2-14-2022 |
A Bee in my Bonnet – Honeybees and Decision Making |
| 2-21-2022 |
Who’s in Charge Here, Anyway? |
| 2-28-2022 |
Baby, It’s Cold Outside |
| 3-7-2022 |
Conversations: When Being Right Takes You Down the Wrong Path |
| 3-14-2022 |
No |
| 3-21-2022 |
Everything is Online, Even Your Groceries |
| 3-28-2022 |
Are You for or Against Online Grocery Shopping? |
| 4-4-2022 |
Questioning the Value of “Thoughts and Prayers” for Natural Disaster Victims |
| 4-11-2022 |
Well, That’s a Look…Not Sure What Look, But It’s Apparently Here to Stay |
| 4-18-2022 |
Did You Know that Flour is Raw? |
| 4-25-2022 |
What was on the Chopping Block for Easter 2022? |
| 5-2-2022 |
Lessons from Rodents (Famous Ones, but Still Rodents) |
| 5-9-2022 |
U.S. Meat Market Performance During the COVID-19 Era |
| 5-16-2022 |
Consumers’ Knowledge and Willingness-to-Pay for Wet-Aged and Dry-Aged Beef |
| 5-23-2022 |
Home, Office, Both, Neither |
| 5-31-2022 |
30% of Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Residents Would Change Jobs to get the Work Location/Arrangement They Seek |
| 6-6-2022 |
Diving into Food Expenditures |
| 6-13-2022 |
Is American Food Purchasing Sustainable? |
| 6-20-2022 |
What do Consumers Believe about Food and Food Systems? |
| 6-27-2022 |
The Queen and Me – What I Learned about Leadership from the Honeybees |
| 7-5-2022 |
Support for Food Policies, Funding, Taxes and Laws |
| 7-11-2022 |
Everything is Just Math |
| 7-18-2022 |
U.S. Resident Support for More/Less Spending on USDA Budget Categories |
| 7-25-2022 |
“Farm Policy” Extends Far Beyond the Farm Gate |
| 8-1-2022 |
The Time Value of Money |
| 8-8-2022 |
Probability is Different Than Propensity |
| 8-15-2022 |
It’s Worth Repeating, Sample Size Matters |
| 8-22-2022 |
Carbon Markets, or are They? |
| 8-29-2022 |
Non-Regulatory Voluntary Carbon Markets Meet Agriculture and Creates Questions |
| 9-6-2022 |
Fundamental Challenges of Agriculture in Carbon Markets |
| 9-12-2022 |
Ag and Carbon Markets – Everybody’s Winning Here, Right? |
| 9-19-2022 |
What Even is Risk? |
| 9-26-2022 |
Communicating Socially Charged Issues |
| 10-3-2022 |
Just so We’re Clear, Take a Look in the Mirror |
| 10-11-2022 |
We Are All a Bunch of Liars |
| 10-16-2022 |
How Did We Get Here? |
| 10-25-2022 |
Leave People Wanting More (Not Begging You to Stop) |
| 10-31-2022 |
Unfunded Producer Mandates for Animal Welfare in Animal Agriculture |
| 11-7-2022 |
#Halloween2022 |
| 11-14-2022 |
Implications of Science and Communication Discourse Today |
| 11-21-2022 |
Learning from Leaders: Navigating the Marketplace with Malcolm DeKryger |
| 11-28-2022 |
Learning from Leaders: Things We Wish People Would Ask About Pork Production |
| 12-5-2022 |
We Do Not Talk Enough About the People |
| 12-12-2022 |
Marketplace Politics |
| 12-19-2022 |
#BabyFormula |
| 12-26-2022 |
Shades of Gray |
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