Prioritize Family Farmers in the Farm Bill!
Tell Congress to keep their promises to family farmers!
This is a deciding moment for your voice to be heard ahead of the Farm Bill. NOW is your chance to let your legislators know that you want their support for the success of all family-scale farmers and ranchers across the US.
The Farm Bill has far-reaching impacts on food and agriculture and could fulfill crucial outcomes like achieving fair prices and agricultural credit for farmers prices, enforcing antitrust safeguards to curb corporate control, supporting conservation practices, and creating affordable access to land. Discussions for the Farm Bill are underway! With your help, we can ensure that this Farm Bill includes transformative, justice-focused policies that help small family farmers thrive.
Contact your legislators today using one of our action alerts and urge them to ensure that the independent producers who feed us are prioritized in the Farm Bill!
Support the Farmland for Farmers Act
Support the Fair Credit for Farmers Act
Ask Your Legislators to Introduce the Milk from Family Dairies Act
Support the LOCAL Foods Act
The Livestock Owned by Communities to Advance Local (LOCAL) Foods Act (S. 5106) update the personal-use exemption in the Federal Meat Inspection Act to align with current USDA standards that dozens of states already rely upon. It clarifies that on-farm slaughter of animals that a person owns, in whole or in part, is legal, protecting the rights of livestock owners, producers, and itinerant slaughterers and preserving the accessibility and affordability of locally produced meat. Click the button below to send an email to your legislators.
Want more ways to help? Click the following images to sign Action Alerts hosted by our partners and allies!
Tell TIAA (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America), which manages pensions funds for millions of people in many public sector jobs, to stop investing in farm land in the U.S. and Brazil. University faculty, staff and students are urged to download a Senate Faculty toolkit to develop a plan for addressing TIAA's farm land grabs. Everyone is encouraged to sign a petition at StopLandGrabs.
Demand fair prices for farmers. Sign up below to receive our action alerts and learn about upcoming policy opportunities.
Schedule meetings with your Representatives or Senators to discuss the issues family farmers and rural communities need to see action. To locate staff for your members of Congress, visit congress.org, click U.S. Congress under Elected Officials on the left bar, search for your member, click on their name, and click on Staff Members (under the member's picture). You will get a list of all lead staff as well as office phone numbers and locations. Call NFFC's office if you need help with your search: 202-543-5675.