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Sara Wyantis President of Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc., a communications firm with offices in Washington, D.C., Sacramento, Calif. and Camdenton, Missouri. As a veteran farm policy reporter, she is recognized on Capitol Hill, as well as with farm and commodity associations across the country. The newsletter and website she founded, Agri-Pulse, include the latest updates on farm policy, commodity and conservation programs, trade, food safety, rural development, and environmental and regulatory programs. In addition, Wyant publishes early morning news summaries Daily Harvest and Daybreak, pr...

Nancy Pelosi's 'Trump Impeachment Outfit' Praised by Twitter Users On 1/14/21 at 5:51 AM EST Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, wore the same outfit to Donald Trump's second impeachment on Wednesday as she did to his first. Trump was impeached on one count of inciting insurrection following the riot at the Capitol last week—making him the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. One detail of the historic proceedings that caught many people's eye was Pelosi's black dress and necklace. Read more Twitter users were quick to point out that she had worn this dress in Cong...

Related As the climate crisis intensifies, a growing number of consumers have begun to see healthy soils as a potential solution. As a result, soil-building techniques like cover crops and diverse crop rotations are increasingly in the limelight. But for many dyed-in-the-wool organic farmers, they’re old hat. “These are practices that have been part of organic certification for decades now,” said Laura Batcha, CEO of the Organic Trade Association (OTA), during a September media briefing to kick off a campaign positioning organic farming as a climate solution. And while the farming techn...