Articles by Sara Wyant

WASHINGTON, February 15, 2012 -The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) delivered a blow to LightSquared’s plans Tuesday when it told the Federal Communications Commission that the firm’s plans to build a nation-wide 4G wireless broadband network will impact Global Po

WASHINGTON, February 15, 2012 -President Obama’s fiscal 2013 budget plan proposes a 17% budget increase for the FDA with an overall $4.5 billion plan, $253 million of which marked for the Transforming Food Safety Initiative.

WASHINGTON, February 15, 2012 -An independent review commissioned by the White House of the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program said there are steps the department can take to lessen the risk of the program

WASHINGTON, February 15, 2012 -The push is on to get the 2012 farm bill done and get it done this early this year. That means it’s time to focus on bridging the often contentious differences between various proposals for the commodity title.

WASHINGTON, February 15, 2012 -As usual, the president’s budget for USDA is being greeted with wailing and gnashing of teeth that approaches biblical proportions. As usual, it will not be approved in Congress in every detail.

WASHINGTON, February 15, 2012 -With all of the effort that went into producing a Farm Bill with $23 billion in hard-fought savings last fall, why not just rubber stamp what was already done? In essence, staff members admit there will likely be a lot of the same concepts in whatever final product ma

more than 500 organizations, businesses and individuals signed a letter asking congressional leaders not to further cut funding to the Conservation Title of the Farm Bill.

The U.S. Senate returns Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. to resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 3240, the “Agriculture Reform, food and Jobs Act of 2012.”

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -A University of Illinois analysis of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) deep-loss revenue protection proposal for the 2012 Farm Bill is raising some eyebrows in the Corn Belt.