David Pitt

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Appeals court revives Syngenta, Bunge GMO lawsuit

David Pitt · October 20, 2014 10:54 pm

Ebola and food security topic at World Food Prize

David Pitt · October 14, 2014 12:04 am

Pig farms rebound from virus; meat prices may drop

David Pitt · October 11, 2014 2:23 pm

USDA ups expected record corn, soybean harvest

David Pitt · October 10, 2014 7:47 pm

Angelique Hakuzimana, displaced by war in her native Rwanda in 2009, works in her garden at the Global Greens Farm, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, in West Des Moines, Iowa. A growing interest from consumers to buy locally grown fruits and vegetables has provided a robust new market for refugees who have fled violence in their home countries and have found peace in farming small plots of land in cities across the United States. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Refugees settle in thanks to small farm plots

David Pitt · September 27, 2014 4:00 pm

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announces new programs to help farmers better manage risk during a news conference in St. Paul, Minn. on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. Farmers can start as early as next week on signing up for new safety net programs that Vilsack said replaces the much-criticized direct payments with government payouts based on the risks farmers face. (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Scott Takushi)

USDA details new risk-based farm payment programs

David Pitt · September 25, 2014 11:11 pm

In this Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 photo, soybeans grow in a field in Springfield, Neb. The nation's corn and soybean farmers will bring in by far the largest harvest ever this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

USDA boosts corn, soybean harvest to new records

David Pitt · September 11, 2014 11:51 pm

Largest corn waste-to-ethanol facility launches

David Pitt · September 3, 2014 10:19 pm

FILE - This Oct. 4, 2012 file photo shows un-harvested corn in a field near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Farmers will produce a record-breaking corn harvest in 2014, surpassing earlier expectations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, revised upward its estimate of this year's corn crop to 14 billion bushels to exceed last year's 13.9 billion bushel record. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Record crops predicted; farmers market carefully

David Pitt · August 13, 2014 2:15 am

Cool summer sets expectations for a record harvest

David Pitt · August 8, 2014 4:58 pm

Iowa lottery sales fall on fewer large jackpots

David Pitt · July 29, 2014 5:56 pm

FILE - In this April 22, 2010 file image from video provided by the United States Humane Society, a Hallmark Meat Packing slaughter plant worker is shown attempting to force a "downed" cow onto its feet by ramming it with the blades of a forklift in Chino, Calif. The yearslong battle between farm organizations and animal rights activists over laws prohibiting secretly filmed documentation of animal abuse is moving to federal courts as ag-gag laws in Utah and Idaho face constitutional challenges. Opponents of the law point to the Chino video and the investigation that followed, which led to the largest meat recall in U.S. history, saying the secrecy puts consumers at higher risk of food safety problems and animals at higher risk of abuse. (AP Photo/Humane Society of the United States, File)

2 ag-gag laws facing federal court challenges

David Pitt · July 19, 2014 5:37 pm