Articles by Sara Wyant

Crop insurance providers need to do a better job verifying and documenting growers who qualify for new producer eligibility and who can potentially qualify for higher indemnity payments.

Production of those crops would be greater under the House Committee bill than under the Senate bill, while corn and soybean production would be greater under the Senate bill than under the House Committee bill, according to a new analysis by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAP

Mitt Romney unveiled members of the “Farmers and Ranchers for Romney” team today, including several secretaries of agriculture and current members of Congress who are supporting his presidential race.

Drought conditions wilted farm income expectations during the second quarter, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s quarterly Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions

President Barack Obama devoted his weekly address to focus on the drought crippling farmers across the heartland and to what he described as an “all-hands-on-deck response” from his administration

The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) announced plans to sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday in an effort to stop the agency from allowing the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) to receive any funding from the national beef checkoff.

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2012 -An attorney who specializes in farm payment limit/eligibility law calls the changes included in the Senate Agriculture Committee’s version of a new farm bill “absurd” and “ridiculous,” but he’s certain that most of his clients would not lose their eligibility if the changes