Agricultural Digest
In early August, a group of Iowa farmers sat down with three members of the House Select Committee on the CCP to discuss their allegations that the Chinese government is stealing proprietary American seeds. In 2011, the FBI famously caught one Chinese national doing just that; in fact, he was part of a larger seed-smuggling ring that is just one piece of the estimated $225 billion to $600 billion a year in intellectual property being stolen by China. Illinois Democrat Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi was sympathetic to the farmers, saying, “We can’t have a situation where we’re constantly developing secrets and research and doing the hard work of innovating — and then all of a sudden having that stolen from us.” One of the farmers, a sixth-generation soybean grower named Suzanne Sherron, cautioned the group, noting that “one out of every three rows of soybeans you saw as you were driving here goes to China — so while there is little doubt that China has targeted the United States' …