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CAPITOL REPORT: The best farmers and ranchers in the world

By U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, Republican, Missouri 8th District
Posted 8/31/24

As a young kid, I always loved helping out on my grandparents’ farm. It was an opportunity to spend quality time with family and it helped me learn the value of hard work. It’s also what inspired me to join FFA, study agriculture in college, and do whatever it would take to one day purchase the farm, which I was able to do using the money I made from harvesting timber on the property while I was in law school. Running my farm, which has been in my family for four generations, isn’t easy. But there is nothing more rewarding.

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