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Agri-Pulse Communications
Sara Wyant is President of Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc., a diversified communications firm with offices in Washington, D.C., Little Rock, Arkansas, and St. Charles, Illinois. As a veteran farm policy reporter, she is well recognized on Capitol Hill as well as with farm and commodity associations across the country.
Her newsletter and web site, Agri-Pulse, includes the latest updates on farm policy, commodity and conservation programs, trade, food safety, rural development, and environmental and regulatory programs. She served as 2007/2008 Chairman of the Farm Foundation’s Board of Trustees, is a member of the Steering Committee for the 25 x '25 Renewable Energy Group, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center at Iowa State. Wyant is a past president of the American Agricultural Editors’ Association. In 2000, she received an Oscar in Agriculture for excellence in agricultural reporting and in 1996, received the United Soybean Board's producer communications award. She is an honorary member of Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE).
Sara gained first-hand knowledge of crop and livestock production while growing up on a farm near Marengo, Iowa, and is still involved with her family’s farming operation. She and her husband also own the farm where his grandparents’ originally homesteaded near Almont, North Dakota, and where his brothers still farm, raise cattle and produce honey.
Sara and her husband, Allan Johnson, have two sons: Jason and Jordan.
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Stewart Doan, Senior Editor
Senior Editor Stewart Doan has covered agriculture for 25 years and is considered the premier cotton and rice journalist in the nation. He has been recognized by the National Cotton Council, the USA Rice Federation and the Arkansas Farm Bureau for his reporting on a wide range of agricultural policy issues.
Doan is respected on Capitol Hill and across the country, having cultivated hundreds of valuable sources who will be called upon to provide Agri-Pulse subscribers with meaningful analysis. He’s at the forefront of breaking developments and news that can be used from ongoing national and international events.
In 2007, Doan was invited to travel with Acting Secretary Chuck Conner, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab, and members of Congress on a trip to South America. The National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) named Doan the 2006 National Farm Broadcaster of the Year. He is also a past president of the NAFB.
He and his wife, Leslie, and their two daughters live in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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James C. Webster, Editor of Farm Hands on the Potomac
Jim Webster has been writing about and dabbling in agricultural politics in Washington since the early days of the Nixon Administration. For the last 26 years, he has written or published seven newsletters, written for several other publications, and appeared on several television news shows.
His most recent venture was The Webster Agricultural Letter, now part of Agri-Pulse Communications. He also writes regularly for the Agra Informa (U.K.) newsletters Agra Europe, Dairy Markets, World Poultrymeat News and AgraFood Biotech; for the Capital Press, a western U.S. farm newspaper; for the eDairy advisory service in Chicago, and Agro magazine. He addresses farm and agribusiness groups in the U.S. and other countries.
From 1990-1993, he was vice president for communications in the Washington office of Sparks Companies, Inc., the predecessor of Informa Economics, and edited its SCI Policy Report and The Food & Fiber Letter.
Webster was assistant secretary of agriculture for governmental and public affairs at USDA during the Carter Administration, chief clerk of the Senate Agriculture Committee, agricultural legislative assistant and press secretary for former U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, and director of public relations for the American Public Power Association.
He's a native of Nebraska, attended Creighton University in Omaha, where he began working for the Associated Press in 1955. He later was an editor and reporter for United Press International and newspapers and rural electric cooperatives in Nebraska, Wisconsin and South Dakota. He was awarded the George W. Haggard Award by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in 1969 for editing the South Dakota High-Liner.
Jim and Marilyn live in Arlington, Virginia, and Ocean Pines, Maryland. Their four children and nine grandchildren live nearby in the Washington area. He is active in community affairs, serving on the board of the Ballston-Virginia Square Partnership, a public-private economic development organization in Arlington, and the executive committee of the Ballston-Virginia Square Civic Association.
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