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"The future is very uncertain," says Jayson Lusk, agricultural economist at Purdue University. "To the extent that we see lower agricultural commodity prices, lower energy prices - that will certainly help, but there are a lot of costs that happen after the farm - like labour and other issues, and those are harder to predict."