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Agricultural pricing refers to the processes, mechanisms, and institutional arrangements through which prices of agricultural products are determined, adjusted, and transmitted across agricultural markets. These processes involve interactions among supply and demand conditions, production costs, market structures, policy interventions, and information flows that influence the formation of prices for crops, livestock products, and other agricultural commodities ^[1]. Agricultural pricing includes both market-based price determination and policy-related price mechanisms, such as price supports, subsidies, tariffs, and other government interventions affecting agricultural markets ^[2]. Compared with general commodity pricing, agricultural pricing is influenced by the biological characteristics of agricultural production, including seasonal supply fluctuations, weather-related uncertainty, perishability, and spatial differences in production and consumption conditions. Within agricultural economics and policy analysis, agricultural pricing provides a framework for examining resource allocation, producer incentives, consumer welfare, market integration, and the effects of agricultural policies on food and farming systems ^[3].