Articles by Sara Wyant

Citing tight cattle supplies, Cargill today announced that it will close its Milwaukee, Wis., beef slaughter facility

PACs and their power are paving the way for greater political influence in Rural America

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During Dwight D. Eisenhowers tenure, both Republicans and Democrats were focused on helping American farmers who were producing much more than U.S. citizens could consume.

Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to approve H.R. 5021, the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014, by a vote of 367-55, even though many Democrats and Republicans admitted the legislation serves as only a short-term fix to the nation’s transportation woes.

When David Graves was hand-picked from Sen. Thad Cochran’s staff to lead the Rice Miller’s Association in 1989, the U.S. congressional map was not his “friend.”

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy wrapped up a two-day tour in the nation’s heartland, visiting a farm near Columbia, Kansas, and speaking yesterday to the Agricultural Business Council of Kansas City

New study explores reducing the federal highway fuel tax by one penny and then indexing the rate to inflation to solve highway trust fund woes

If farmers' political influence was measured strictly by the number of farm operators, 1935 would have been a very good year. Peaking at 6.8 million out of a total U.S. population of 127 million, farmers represented slightly more than 5 percent of U.S. citizens&

the U. S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) has filed an interim rule with the Federal Register today, allowing USDA to move forward with changes to crop insurance provisions, as authorized in the 2014 farm bill