(NAFB) – The House Ag Committee met Thursday to review U.S. agricultural sales to Cuba. Committee Chairman Collin Peterson introduced legislation to facilitate expanded U.S. ag trade with Cuba last month. The bipartisan bill is co-sponsored by nearly 40 other members of Congress – including Jerry Moran of Kansas, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri. Peterson said Thursday that the restrictions on agricultural trade with Cuba have failed to achieve their stated goal - and instead have hand-delivered an export market in our own backyard to the Brazilians, the Europeans and our other competitors around the world.
Several ag and commodity groups were represented at the hearing. The Presidents of the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Farmers Union both testified. As did producers representing the U.S. Rice Producers Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Milk Producers Federation, National Corn Growers Association and American Soybean Association.
