Articles by Sara Wyant

A new briefing paper from the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University provides a preliminary glimpse of the economic effects of short corn and soybean crops this year

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -Organizers of the “Just Label It” campaign who have asked the FDA to mandate labeling of food with biotech ingredients are taking their crusade to the White House. In less than a week, they have surpassed the goal of getting 25,000 people to clink a link on its “We the P

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -Former President Bill Clinton has no doubt that U.S. agriculture will continue to feed this country and many others around the globe, but apparently doesn’t want it to fuel the world, too.

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -Top trade officials from the U.S. and Brazil met in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday for their second quarterly meeting to discuss their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and a Framework Agreement developed as a result of Brazil’s successful challenge to U.S. farm and export

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -The House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., says recommendations for budget reconciliation cuts required by the House Budget Resolution are “just an exercise, and not the farm bill.” It’s the perspective he will bring to a panel business meeting at 10

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -The Senate Agriculture Committee expects to have a preliminary version of the 2012 Farm Bill ready by the end of this week, in the hope of beginning the mark-up process next Wednesday, April 25, according to panel Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -After almost three years of criticism from GOP leaders for not passing a budget, Senator Kent Conrad, D-N.D., will begin a Senate Budget Committee markup Wednesday of President Obama’s Fiscal Commission Budget Plan, the Bowles-Simpson plan. That mix of budget cuts and ta

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -Aided by favorable weather, spring crops continue to go into the ground at a lightning clip.

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 -Several legal affairs “blogs” have been intrigued recently that the U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Justice Department to express its views about an Indiana farmer’s appeal from lower court decisions upholding Monsanto’s patent on glyphosate-resistant biotech soybeans.

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.