On September 19, NAEGA and NGFA submitted a joint statement to the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee as a follow up to the Committee’s September 13 hearing concerning perspectives on U.S. agricultural trade. The statement provided information on the performance of U.S. trade with respect to the grain, feed, grain and oilseed processing, and export sectors. The statement goes into detail about agricultural trade with current trade agreement partners, the European Union, Japan, and China, and warns of the harm that lost market share can inflict on U.S. exporters.

Read the full statement here.