Articles by Sara Wyant

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has long emphasized providing assistance to beginning farmers and ranchers and once suggested a goal of adding 100,000 new farmers by 2012.

Wind energy already provides nearly 5% of the nationps total electricity generation, but there is tremendous potential to expand production across all 50 states by embracing taller wind turbines, larger rotors, and other technical innovations.

Vermont�s effort to identify foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been billed as a �no-strings attached� labeling law. Simple. Straightforward.

Specialty crop growers who purchase crop insurance are increasingly concerned that the forms they filed to meet new conservation compliance requirements are not being processed by USDA staff.

EPAs delays in rulemaking for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) over the past two years have resulted in an estimated $13.7 billion shortfall in investment in advanced and cellulosic biofuels.

As the number of avian influenza (AI) cases continues to grow, the people on the front line of testing for the diseases are worried about keeping up.

A federal court judge denied food industry requests to dismiss Vermont's law on GMO labeling but will allow the lawsuit to proceed.

Coming next year to a field near you: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that can scout your fields for damages and expedite potential crop insurance claims.

Rising commodity prices resulted in record high farm incomes and land values in recent years, but experts warn those days may be coming to a rather abrupt end, bringing swift repercussions to landlords, input suppliers and taxpayers who may see farm program costs rise again.

Sometime in the future, producers should be able to use precision technology to collect all of the data used in their farming operations and send verification via the Internet to their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office or crop insurance agent for collection by the Risk Management