Sara Wyant

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed with a lower District Court that found that DuPont and its Pioneer unit had “abused the judicial process and acted in bad faith” in a case regarding seed patents and licensing, but stopped short of recognizing DuPont’s actions as “fraud on th

After months of negotiations, House and Senate negotiators, including Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Bill Shuster announced a deal to advance the $8.2 billion Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA)

After being roundly criticized by many farm organizations for new proposals dealing with clean water and proposed changes in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sat down in a USDA briefing room on Tuesday with a clear message for the agricul

Later this fall, USDA expects to allow growers to sign up for either the new Price Loss Coverage (PLC) or Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) commodity programs, but they’ll also have another key decision to make: whether to participate in a new optional crop insurance program called the Supplemental

As the debate emerges over who owns and controls “big data,” there are a host of related issues that also need to be addressed, including federal support for public data collection, opportunities for public/private partnerships and underlying infrastructure issues such as: how to provide “big broad

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that $328 million in conservation funding is being invested as he provided an update on his visit with President Obama about the farm bill

In what could be great news for livestock and poultry producers and a gut-check for many corn, soybean and cotton growers, the latest baseline projections from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri suggests that corn prices could hover near $4/bu.