The proposed criteria are inadequate and vague, failing to address significant and harmful practices in the livestock industry that are both anti-competitive and detrimental to farmer livelihoods.
Memo: Land Access for Beginning and Disadvantaged Farmers
The Green New Deal must eradicate the historical discrimination in government policies and agency practices against socially disadvantaged farmers and encourage farmland acquisition by resident operators.
The People Providing Our Food Are Essential; We Must Treat Them That Way
Similar to the healthcare system, our food system has been radically underfunded and under prioritized, with corporations and profitization driving decision-making, but a new stimulus package focused on racial and economic equity could help to address that.
FAMILY FOOD PRODUCERS AND ANTI-HUNGER ADVOCATES URGE SUPPORT FOR LOCAL SUPPLY CHAINS IN NEXT STIMULUS BILL
Today, NFFC joined Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA), Farm Aid, WhyHunger, HEAL Food Alliance, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) in releasing a set of policy asks for Congress that would allocate funds to directly invest in communities to build out critical infrastructure between local and regional food producers and families in need of healthy food.
Social Distancing and Connection
The pandemic will impact farmers, rural communities, and people who rely on food assistance in ways that are only beginning to emerge, while also making many people slow down and appreciate the close community and resources they have around them.
Consolidation and Climate Change Threaten U.S. Fisheries
A ‘Surf and Turf’ panel hosted by FERN highlighted the effects of climate change – particularly rising ocean temperatures – and the need for fishers in some regions to catch new species or get out of the business. Eaters should also practice flexibility.
Whether You call it USMCA or NAFTA, it’s Really just a Failed Farm Policy
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Missouri Cattlemen’s Association collect the same checkoff dollar from foreign cattle and beef as from U.S. beef producers. The more imports, the better for them, at a loss for U.S. producers.
Jury Awards Grower $265 Million in Damages from Drift of Monsanto’s Dicamba
The jury found that Bayer (Monsanto) and BASF created a joint venture to manufacture and sell dicamba-resistant seed and low-volatility herbicides, and that they conspired to create an ‘ecological disaster’ to increase profits.
Dairy Farmers Facing Crisis as Milk Consumption, Prices Decline
The number of farms with 30 to 200 cows declined by 30 percent from 2000 to 2006, but farms with a large number of cows have increased, now producing the bulk of the nation’s dairy production.
NFFC Stands in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en First Nation Against Pipeline
Our history of exploitation, violence, and marginalization is not relegated to history books but manifests itself to this day in determining property rights, access to public services, and how systemic racism is or is not addressed.
National Conference Lifts Up Heirs Property Issues
Since the Civil Rights Movement, heirs property and partition sales have led to the loss of over 2 million acres of Black owned land in the South, but changes in the 2018 Farm Bill offer a path and alternative forms of documentation to access USDA programs and resources for families with land in heir property status.