Articles by Steve Davies

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2017 - House Agriculture Committee members agreed with officials from land-grant and non-land grant universities on the importance of agricultural research at a hearing today, as the committee continues the process of preparing for the 2018 farm bill.

WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017 - EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt committed to publishing a new rule establishing which waters would be regulated under the Clean Water Act by the first three months of next year at the latest, in testimony before House appropriators today.

WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 – Corn growers in the U.S. and Canada will have a new option next year when Dow AgroSciences launches Enlist Corn, engineered to be resistant to the company’s Enlist Duo herbicide, which contains glyphosate and the choline salt of 2,4-D.

WASHINGTON, June 8, 2017 - The potential, but also the pitfalls, of new technologies to streamline the delivery of SNAP benefits was highlighted at a hearing of the House Agriculture Nutrition subcommittee, which hosted witnesses from technology companies, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and New York City as it gathers information in preparation for the 2018 farm bill.

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2017 - The results of the latest survey of U.S. beekeepers by the Bee Informed Partnership offer hope for the industry and for growers who depend on the tiny pollinators, but experts also caution not to read too much into the numbers.

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2017 - A Senate energy bill that failed to make it through the last Congress will be the starting point for talks in this Congress, top Senate staffers on the Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee say.