VIDEO: Smith Stresses Importance of Biotechnology in Agriculture Trade Hearing

Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) stressed the importance of biotechnology in today’s Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing on U.S. agriculture trade.

“With 96 percent of the world’s consumers living outside our country, trade agreements hold great promise for U.S. agriculture,” Smith said. “However, in ongoing and future negotiations, we must work to end arbitrary restrictions on U.S. biotech products in large economies such as China and the European Union. Today’s hearing reinforced the advantages of biotechnology, such as increasing yields while preserving finite resources, as well as the challenges of misinformation and unscientific policies we must overcome to enable U.S. producers to feed the growing global population.”

Last week, Smith wrote an op-ed for The Hill entitled “Assaults on Modern Agriculture,” in which he discussed the necessity of biotechnology in feeding the world and the need to bring an end to unscientific attacks on agriculture. The op-ed is available here.


Video of Congressman Smith’s discussion on biotechnology with Mr. Kevin Paap, chairman of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Trade Advisory Committee and president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau.