Catherine Hanaway's Op-ed on the Right to Farm amendment ran over the weekend in the Springfield News-Leader.
In her words: Missouri is endowed with vast opportunities to create jobs through agriculture. Missouri is the only state with the two largest navigable rivers in the United States flowing through its borders that can carry products to major ports for international transport. Missouri is blessed with fertile farmland that produces $3.9 billion worth of soybeans and corn, while maintaining a $1.9 billion beef industry. Missouri's poultry and pork industries are valued at $1.3 billion and $882 million.
Missouri's total agriculture sector is valued slightly above $9 billion, and Missouri is ranked No. 2 nationally for total number of farms!
Missouri's agricultural economy creates wide-ranging jobs far beyond the fields. Agriculture jobs range from technical education such as fabrication and implement repair to food and fuel processing to scientists working in the animal health corridor in the western half of the state and in plant science at our universities to start-up companies and to established global companies headquartered in Missouri.
The future growth and opportunity in Missouri jobs is vested at all levels of the agriculture sector.
In the short term, we must protect the agricultural sector from burdensome regulations and federal overreach by passing the Right to Farm amendment this August...In the long term, this is our opportunity to lead the nation...by becoming the No. 1 agribusiness state in the United States!
Let's go tell the world!
Catherine Hanaway is a former speaker of the Missouri House and Republican candidate for governor working for the success of Missourians.
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