Agri-Pulse staff

Former congressman Mike Espy, who served as Agriculture Secretary during the Clinton administration, has made it official. The Democrat announced last week that he’s running for the U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi recently vacated by Republican Thad Cochran.

Rep. Joe Barton, the longest-serving member of the Texas congressional delegation, says he won’t be seeking re-election in 2018.

The Senate voted to confirm David Zatezalo as the Labor Department’s assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2017 - Two organizations that control the licensing of much of the foundational CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing intellectual property for use in agriculture decided to work together to make these tools available non-exclusively, removing roadblocks to expanded use of this technology.