Articles by Sara Wyant

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has made progress in cracking down on waste, fraud and abuse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

With the current farm bill extension expiring on Sept. 30 and Congress seemingly unable to make any long-term policy decisions, many farmers and ranchers have given up hope

Despite lower farm income and expectations of additional declines, farmland values surged further during the second quarter of 2013.

For all of those naysayers who don’t believe Congress can muster up the votes and deliver a farm bill to the president’s desk this year, Rep. Mike Conaway, R- Texas, has a message: Don’t give up hope.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., expressed frustration with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor today following reports that he will bring a nutrition title with $40 billion in cuts to the House floor for a vote next month

The House is expected to vote this morning on a revamped farm bill (H.R. 2642) that would exclude the nutrition title and repeal a major stronghold for agricultural interests, the 1949 and 1938 permanent law.

Fresh from a GOP conference meeting, Rep. Steve King, R- Iowa, told members of the American Soybean Association that Republican leaders plan to split the farm bill into two parts

The School Nutrition Association (SNA)’s decision to hire a new firm for advocacy and legislative services prompted some members and outside observers to question whether the association is so fed up with new school lunch requirements that they are bTacking away from being advocates for children’s

The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers Council filed a lawsuit and sought a restraining order on Friday in an attempt to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from releasing personal information about farmers and ranchers