Articles by Sara Wyant

A new report by the Global Harvest Initiative (GHI) indicates that global agricultural productivity is not accelerating fast enough to meet the expected agricultural demand for sustainable production by 2050

Congressional inaction and continued uncertainty about a package of more than 50 tax extenders could complicate the 2015 tax filing season and force the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to postpone the opening on the 2015 filing season, warned IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in a recent letter to Sena

USDA will expand the parameters for eligibility and increase farm lending limits to help more beginning and family farmers, the agency announced today

WASHINGTON, June 4, 2014 - Got dairy cows? If so, the state of Missouri would like to invite you and your cows to relocate.

In the past, Northeast China has been a difficult market for U.S. companies to crack. The region is traditionally an area of farming and manufacturing, making it difficult to find a place for U.S. agricultural exports, notes USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed with a lower District Court that found that DuPont and its Pioneer unit had “abused the judicial process and acted in bad faith” in a case regarding seed patents and licensing, but stopped short of recognizing DuPont’s actions as “fraud on th

After months of negotiations, House and Senate negotiators, including Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Bill Shuster announced a deal to advance the $8.2 billion Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA)

After being roundly criticized by many farm organizations for new proposals dealing with clean water and proposed changes in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sat down in a USDA briefing room on Tuesday with a clear message for the agricul

Later this fall, USDA expects to allow growers to sign up for either the new Price Loss Coverage (PLC) or Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) commodity programs, but they’ll also have another key decision to make: whether to participate in a new optional crop insurance program called the Supplemental