Sara Wyant

After chronicling droughts, flood, global economic turmoil and then the ups and downs associated with writing a new farm bill package in a hyper-partisan Congress in 2011, it’s hard to believe that 2012 won’t offer some new glimmers of hope.

An alliance of livestock and poultry producer groups, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmers Union is urging the House Agriculture Committee leaders to reject legislation that would codify an agreement between United Egg Producers and the Humane Society of the United States to

McDonald’s is featuring farmers and ranchers in its 2012 advertising campaign in an effort to promote local sourcing from family operations.

A New York federal judge granted Monsanto’s request for oral arguments on the seed company’s motion to dismiss an organic coalition’s lawsuit against the biotech seeds and traits leader.

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) implemented a new program for beginning farmers that provides an alternative for intergenerational transfers of farm real estate.

Mitt Romney pulled off a win in the Iowa caucus last night by a tiny margin, with just eight more Republican caucus votes than runner-up Rick Santorum

Throughout the first nine months of calendar 2011, farmland values in much of the Midwest and Great Plains posted their year-over-year gains of 25 percent or more, marking the largest annual increase since the late 1970s

Custom harvesters traveled to Capitol Hill prior to the Christmas break in hopes of persuading the House Transportation Committee to hold a hearing on legislation to modify a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulation

The California Air Resource Board says it will appeal a decision by a federal court judge preventing implementation of the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney raised $317,325 in campaign contributions from farm and agribusiness interests last year.