Start with something useful. Stay for the deeper story. Choose the time you have: short practical reads, then substantial document analysis and original worked examples.
A local farm census, a revised federal food-dollar model and a household receipt measure different things. Reading them together exposes the questions a useful local price investigation must answer.
Seven installments. Sources checked September 20, 2026. Three long analyses of 15, 20 and 30 minutes are in the protected issue reader. No artificial page-turns, invented interviews or live-price claims.
