Articles by Sara Wyant

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -Agency officials and constituent groups are braced for more belt-tightening when President Obama’s budget for USDA is made public Monday.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -The trustee for the liquidation of MF Global Inc. reported dim hopes for retrieving the remaining customer funds lost in the broker-dealer’s collapse last fall.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Cattlemen’s Beef Board buried the hatchet last week during their joint annual meeting in Nashville and vowed to work together to ensure a successful and sustainable U.S. beef industry.

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -USDA’s proposal to deregulate a biotech corn variety that tolerates the 2,4-D herbicide is encountering resistance from more than traditional foes of biotechnology, raising questions about whether the biotech community will hold together as even more new traits are off

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -Farm Service Agency offices are holding the last of their public meetings this week to discuss the proposed closures announced by USDA in its “Blueprint for Stronger Service.”

WASHINGTON, February 8, 2012 -With Doha Round trade agreement negotiations stalled and bilateral agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama ratified by Congress last year, U.S. farm and agribusiness groups have focused increasing hope on negotiating a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -Most major farm organizations and commodity groups agree on one thing: Federal crop insurance should continue to be an important part of the safety net for 2012 and beyond.

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -The head of the largest U.S. farm organization was direct and to the point in a speech Tuesday to Mississippi Delta farmers: the days of Washington sending row-crop growers a yearly subsidy check are over.

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -This year is expected to be one full of changes for agriculture with the deadline for rewriting or reauthorizing the Farm Bill arriving this fall, while factors including weather, price volatility, biofuels and population growth impact the industry

WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 -A team of EPA scientists who reviewed 10 years of biofuels research say significant “gaps” exist in policy makers’ understanding of impacts the alternative fuels could have on the environment and public health, potentially widening ethanol’s exposure to criticism from