Articles by Sara Wyant

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -The Food Safety and Inspection Service is taking its defense right to the heart of new media, disputing critics who say food safety will be compromised by a proposed modernization of its poultry inspection system.

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -USDA’s own National Organic Standards Board is hoping to push Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to side with organic farmers in the debate over coexistence. A six-member NOSB ad hoc committee wants his help making biotech companies and biotech crop farmers responsible

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -Organizers of the effort to persuade FDA to mandate biotech food labels don’t rely only on legal assertions in their 25-page petition. The campaign that collected more than 1 million signatures in support of the petition was calibrated to win public opinion even if its f

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -After more than four years of review, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied a petition filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) seeking to cancel use of 2,4-D

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -Some market-watchers were scratching their heads Tuesday after Agriculture Department forecasters made no changes to their U.S. corn balance sheet in the April Supply & Demand report. Private analysts had anticipated as much as a 100 million bushel reduction in project

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -Several large organic food marketers and anti-biotech activists want the Obama Administration to reverse a 20-year policy of opposing mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -Honeybee populations, which faced losses between 30% and 90% of honeybee colonies since 2006, continue to face steady declines while exact causes are yet to be found, said USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research entomologist, Jay Evans.

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -Reports circulating around Washington indicate that the House Agriculture Committee will attempt to legislate regulatory certainty for farmers and ranchers through the next farm bill.

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -One of the most consistent themes heard during grower meetings and farm bill hearings over the last year has been the need to protect federal crop insurance as a viable part of the safety net in the 2012 Farm Bill.

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday became the latest member of a long list of distinguished public figures to deliver a Landon Lecture at Kansas State University.