Articles by Steve Davies

Bob Dole’s death Sunday brought a slew of tributes for the Kansas legislator who helped expand the food stamp program and whose name is on a significant international food program.

The Senate last night cleared a continuing resolution that will keep the government funded at fiscal 2021 levels until Feb. 18.

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to have growers of leafy greens and other fruits and vegetables conduct “comprehensive assessments” of pre-harvest agricultural water, replacing the current requirement in FDA's 2015 Produce Safety Rule for microbial water quality testing.

With Congress weighing new policy incentives for sustainable aviation fuel, United Airlines flew a 737 into D.C. with one of the jet’s two engines running solely on the biofuel.

Following a failed attempt by the Trump administration to freeze farmworker wages for two years, the Labor Department is proposing to go back to setting minimum wage rates for foreign workers the same way it had been for 30 years.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is standing up a new “center of excellence” in an effort to reduce use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer by 12%, the equivalent of removing 10 million cars from the road.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says he wants the Senate to pass the massive Build Back Better bill by the end of the month.

House Democrats who were poised to pass the $1.7 trillion Build Back Better bill last night decided to recess until this morning, after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took the floor to speak at about 8:38 p.m. and kept talking until past 1 a.m.

The Democratic-controlled House passes President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion Build Back Better bill that includes $82 billion in agriculture provisions aimed at accelerating an historic shift toward climate-related farming practices.