Articles by Sara Wyant

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.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -Quietly and with little fanfare, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is mulling a significant change in its response to a potential Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak, recognizing that suppressing a widespread outbreak in a timely manner would

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -Even though biodiesel producers are facing the same situation this year that it did in 2010 when expiration of the biodiesel tax incentive crippled production, the most important issue for the industry in 2012 is the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2).

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -The American Farm Bureau Federation will meet with the Department of Labor next week to discuss the revised agricultural child labor rules first proposed last September.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -The House Science, Space and Technology Committee Tuesday morning marked up and sent to the House floor a measure calling on the EPA to commission a National Academy of Sciences study of the effects of blending 15 percent ethanol in gasoline.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -Agency officials and constituent groups are braced for more belt-tightening when President Obama’s budget for USDA is made public Monday.