Sara Wyant

WASHINGTON, January 18, 2012 -Retiring President Obama’s proposal to merge the U.S. Trade Representative and four other independent agencies into a new department that includes business-related components of the Department of Commerce is running into criticism from agricultural and trade interest g

WASHINGTON, January 18, 2012 -A federal district judge in San Francisco has thrown out the most recent challenge in the long legal campaign to overturn USDA’s decision to approve biotech alfalfa for commercial planting.

WASHINGTON, January 18, 2012 -The U.S. National Space-Based Positioning Navigation and Timing Committee (PNT) says that the LightSquared network could “cause harmful interference to many GPS receivers” as well as the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS).

WASHINGTON, January 18, 2012 -The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure is expected to draft a long-term, six-year surface transportation bill within the next couple of weeks in the hopes of adopting a measure before current law expires March 31.

With Congress seemingly headed for another year of gridlock, renewable energy advocates say they are looking more at states to provide the leadership in clean energy development.

After Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced field office closings as part of USDA’s new “Blueprint for Stronger Service at USDA” last week, we heard from USDA employees who questioned whether this could really be described as a “new” effort.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow says she has a commitment from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to begin writing a new farm bill this week that represents “the most significant reform in agricultural policy in decades.”

WASHINGTON, January 11, 2012 -With Congress doling out roughly 12% fewer discretionary dollars for the last two years, USDA leaders have been looking for ways to take nips and tucks in their operating budgets

WASHINGTON, January 11, 2012 -A North Carolina Environmental Management Commission (EMC) committee that oversees National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits is scheduled to hear arguments today over whether the state’s largest egg farm, needs a NPDES permit.

WASHINGTON, January 11, 2012 -The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is anti-agriculture and attempting to destroy the industry in Nebraska, said that state’s governor, Dave Heineman