Prioritize Family Farmers in Federal Farm Policy
Tell Congress to keep their promises to family farmers!
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
Support the Milk from Family Dairies Act
Support the LOCAL Foods Act
The Livestock Owned by Communities to Advance Local (LOCAL) Foods Act updates 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.
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.