Articles by Sara Wyant

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -The head of the largest U.S. farm organization was direct and to the point in a speech Tuesday to Mississippi Delta farmers: the days of Washington sending row-crop growers a yearly subsidy check are over.

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -This year is expected to be one full of changes for agriculture with the deadline for rewriting or reauthorizing the Farm Bill arriving this fall, while factors including weather, price volatility, biofuels and population growth impact the industry

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -A team of EPA scientists who reviewed 10 years of biofuels research say significant “gaps” exist in policy makers’ understanding of impacts the alternative fuels could have on the environment and public health, potentially widening ethanol’s exposure to criticism from

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -La Niña, a cooling of equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean that affects global weather patterns, is expected to fade away this spring, offering many U.S. growers a slightly better outlook over 2011

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -The Department of Labor is likely to be in the hot seat Thursday when a House subcommittee reviews proposed regulations that could restrict how children work on U.S. farms and ranches.

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -Although the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has made “significant” progress in its enforcement investigation of bankrupt MF Global, a number of unanswered questions still remain, Commissioner Jill Sommers told attendees at the Wheat Industry Winter Confere

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -American Vegetable Soybean (AVS) and Edamame Inc. broke ground Tuesday on an edamame processing facility in Mulberry, Ark. Edamame, one of the fastest growing specialty foods in the United States, is a soybean harvested at the peak of ripening.

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -USDA’s long-awaited new school lunch standards, unveiled last week, were met with almost universal praise from schools groups, the food industry, academics and nutrition activists for their potential for more healthful meals for 32 million students in school meal progr

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -U.S. military members coming home from war zones without a job and an uncertain future are being encouraged to consider farming as a career. For many, it’s what they grew up doing.

Sen. Chambliss was one of five to oppose the bill in committee, and although he was one of 90 that voted for the motion to proceed on Thursday he said that, “as of today, the bill is filled with inequities and is unbalanced.”