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Hearing Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives HEARING TO HIGHLIGHT RESEARCH INNOVATIONS ACHIEVED BY OUR NATION’S AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON BIOTECHNOLOGY, HORTICULTURE, AND RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 Serial No. 114–27 ( Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture agriculture.house.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 96–879 PDF WASHINGTON : 2015 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:20 Dec 17, 2015 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 P:\DOCS\114-27\96879.TXT BRIAN COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas, Chairman RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas, COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota, Ranking Vice Chairman Minority Member BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia DAVID SCOTT, Georgia FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma JIM COSTA, California STEVE KING, Iowa TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota MIKE ROGERS, Alabama MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania JAMES P. MCGOVERN, Massachusetts BOB GIBBS, Ohio SUZAN K. DELBENE, Washington AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia FILEMON VELA, Texas ERIC A. ‘‘RICK’’ CRAWFORD, Arkansas MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, New Mexico SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee ANN M. KUSTER, New Hampshire CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York RICHARD M. NOLAN, Minnesota VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri CHERI BUSTOS, Illinois DAN BENISHEK, Michigan SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, New York JEFF DENHAM, California ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona DOUG LAMALFA, California PETE AGUILAR, California RODNEY DAVIS, Illinois STACEY E. PLASKETT, Virgin Islands TED S. YOHO, Florida ALMA S. ADAMS, North Carolina JACKIE WALORSKI, Indiana GWEN GRAHAM, Florida RICK W. ALLEN, Georgia BRAD ASHFORD, Nebraska MIKE BOST, Illinois DAVID ROUZER, North Carolina RALPH LEE ABRAHAM, Louisiana JOHN R. MOOLENAAR, Michigan DAN NEWHOUSE, Washington TRENT KELLY, Mississippi SCOTT C. GRAVES, Staff Director ROBERT L. LAREW, Minority Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON BIOTECHNOLOGY, HORTICULTURE, AND RESEARCH RODNEY DAVIS, Illinois, Chairman GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania SUZAN K. DELBENE, Washington, Ranking AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia Minority Member CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio JEFF DENHAM, California JAMES P. MCGOVERN, Massachusetts TED S. YOHO, Florida ANN M. KUSTER, New Hampshire JOHN R. MOOLENAAR, Michigan GWEN GRAHAM, Florida DAN NEWHOUSE, Washington (II) VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:20 Dec 17, 2015 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 0486 Sfmt 0486 P:\DOCS\114-27\96879.TXT BRIAN C O N T E N T S Page Davis, Hon. Rodney, a Representative in Congress from Illinois, opening statement .............................................................................................................. 1 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 3 DelBene, Hon. Suzan K., a Representative in Congress from Washington, opening statement ................................................................................................ 4 WITNESSES Hauser, Ph.D., Robert J., Dean, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Envi- ronmental Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL ...................................... 5 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 7 Suplementary material .................................................................................... 61 Moyer, Ph.D., James W., Associate Dean for Research, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University; Di- rector, Agricultural Research Center, Pullman, WA ......................................... 10 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 12 Brashears, Ph.D., Mindy M., Professor of Food Safety and Public Health, Texas Tech University; Director, International Center for Food Industry Excellence, Lubbock, TX ...................................................................................... 15 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 17 Heithaus, Ph.D., Michael R., Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida International University; Executive Director, School of Environ- ment, Arts and Society, North Miami, FL ......................................................... 25 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 27 Lacy, Ph.D., Michael P., Professor and Department Head, Department of Poultry Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA ......................................... 33 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 35 Buhler, Ph.D., Douglas D., Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University; Director, MSU AgBioResearch, East Lansing, MI ............................................................ 37 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 39 Suplementary material .................................................................................... 61 (III) VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:20 Dec 17, 2015 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\DOCS\114-27\96879.TXT BRIAN VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:20 Dec 17, 2015 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\DOCS\114-27\96879.TXT BRIAN HEARING TO HIGHLIGHT RESEARCH INNOVATIONS ACHIEVED BY OUR NATION’S AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON BIOTECHNOLOGY, HORTICULTURE, AND RESEARCH, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Washington, D.C. The Subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:06 a.m., in Room 1300 of the Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Rodney Davis [Chairman of the Subcommittee] presiding. Members present: Representatives Davis, Thompson, Scott, Gib- son, Denham, Yoho, Moolenaar, Newhouse, Conaway (ex officio), DelBene, McGovern, Kuster, Graham, and Peterson (ex officio). Staff present: Haley Graves, Jessica Carter, John Goldberg, Mary Nowak, Mollie Wilken, Stephanie Addison, Faisal Siddiqui, John Konya, Anne Simmons, Keith Jones, Liz Friedlander, Nicole Scott, and Carly Reedholm. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. RODNEY DAVIS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM ILLINOIS The CHAIRMAN. This hearing of the Subcommittee on Bio- technology, Horticulture, and Research to highlight research inno- vations achieved by our nation’s agricultural colleges and univer- sities, will come to order. I would like to first welcome everybody. I will offer my opening statement here momentarily too. I apologize for being somewhat late. One of those few occasions here where the elevators weren’t working too well in the Longworth Building, and in order to try and save one of my—well, some of us. Actually, I was trying to save, Mr. Chairman, one of your fellow Texas colleagues who was stuck with a little bit of the elevator door open. Note to self, don’t stick your finger in there. I almost lost it. But Kevin Brady is doing fine, so he is okay. So my apologies and my excuse because the Chairman, Mr. Conaway, always like to start hearings on time and I don’t want him to take away my gavel. So thank you again for coming, and I would like to begin with my opening statement. Good morning. Again, I would like to welcome everybody here. This is the third in a series of hearings highlighting ag research, extension, and education programs for this Subcommittee. On April 14, we had the honor of hosting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture (1) VerDate Mar 15 2010 14:20 Dec 17, 2015 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 P:\DOCS\114-27\96879.TXT BRIAN 2 Harden, along with 17 bright and gifted young people involved in the 4–H Program. These young men and women spoke to us about the need and opportunity to build a coalition of urban and rural youth to enhance agricultural knowledge across our nation. Then on July 15, the full Agriculture Committee held a historic hearing involving the presidents of all 19 1890 land-grant universities in order to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the enactment of the Second Morrill Act. This Act, like its predecessor in 1862, con- tributed to our nation’s capacity to conduct research in support of agricultural production through the creation of land-grant univer- sities. Since that time, we have added to our capacity by providing land-grant status to designated tribal colleges in 1994, and quasi- land-grant status to cooperative forestry colleges under the McIntire-Stennis Act, our nation’s veterinary colleges under the Animal Health and Disease Capacity and Infrastructure Program, and most recently Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and uni- versities in 2008. We have likewise recognized the investment in agricultural re- search capacity in numerous unaffiliated colleges and universities, and have authorized funding to further augment capacity and in- frastructure at these designated non-land-grant colleges of ag. To- gether, this system of agricultural colleges and universities pro- vides our nation’s farmers and ranchers with tremendous advances in technology, as well as helping to solve problems ranging from food safety to resource conservation, from nutrition to water qual- ity, and from diseases of livestock and crops to renewable
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