New USDA grant to support rural price inflation examination

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State Universityled research team has received an $800,000 grant to develop low-cost methods of measuring price inflation and cost of living in rural areas. The funding is through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Scott Loveridge, an expert in rural economies and professor in the MSU Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economic…