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Sara Wyant

Sara Wyant

Sara Wyant
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Soybeans

Ruhland picked to head soybean checkoff

08/22/17 5:50 PM By Sara Wyant
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2017 - Members of the United Soybean Board have selected Polly Ruhland to serve as their next Chief Executive Officer, succeeding current CEO John Becherer who plans to retire at the end of 2017 after more than 20 years of service to the checkoff.
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Murkowski, Cantwell offer new version of energy bill

07/05/17 1:36 AM By Sara Wyant
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - As expected, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Maria Cantwell of Washington, the panel's ranking Democrat, introduced a new version of their bipartisan energy package, building on a previous version of the bill that won 85 Senate votes last year.
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House and Senate transportation leaders press DOT on impeding GHG emissions measure

07/04/17 11:34 PM By Sara Wyant
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Peter DeFazio, ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao requesting information on the agency’s recent action to indefinitely delay provisions of a final rule requiring states to track on-road greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Trump pledges to rebuild rural America

06/21/17 7:00 PM By Sara Wyant
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 21, 2017 – President Donald Trump toured the precision agriculture training program at Kirkwood Community College here today before delivering optimistic campaign-style speeches that embraced farmers and ranchers as the “backbone of America.”
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To Russia with renewables? Not so fast…..

06/21/17 6:00 AM By Sara Wyant
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - With Russia serving as one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of oil and gas and a renewed focused on improving domestic food supplies, it shouldn’t exactly be a surprise that biofuels have an insignificant share in the overall energy production matrix of that country.
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