Articles by Sara Wyant

Two weeks after the 2014 farm bill was completed, Risk Management Agency (RMA) Administrator Brandon Willis wrote a memo to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, listing the required crop insurance changes and the timeline of when those changes could be available. He changed the t

What a difference a year makes for the U.S. sugar industry. When Michael Scuse, USDA Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Services, spoke at the 2014 International Sweetener Colloquium in California, he talked about Pre-export swaps,P 

President Barack Obama's 2016 budget proposal includes cuts to crop insurance but the focus is on farmers

After two previous failed attempts, NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite on Jan. 31 designed to detect soil moisture, improve climate and weather forecasts, track yields and help scientists more accurately account for how much carbon plants are removing from

For the last 13 months, most of the news coming out of China regarding the U.S. grain trade has been one of frustration and uncertainty, putting a damper on commodity prices that have already tumbled from historic highs.

Syngenta announced today that it has received the safety certificate for its Agrisure Viptera? trait (event MIR162) from China?s regulatory authorities, formally granting import approval.

Given all of the turmoil and dysfunction in Congress, passage of the 2014 farm bill this spring was a major accomplishment, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow emphasized during her keynote speech at the Farm Journal Forum today in Washington. But she warned that the broad-based

Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee debated funding levels and position limits during a hearing on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) says it will provide more than $6.5 million in grants to improve plant health, production, and products.

Lawmakers looking to stop waste, fraud and abuse at USDA will find plenty of cases – from food stamps to farm loans - highlighted by the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) in its most recent six-month review.