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We must urge elected officials to support the Fair Credit for Farmers Act
Todd Leak from Dakota Resource Council wrote a letter to the editor of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, calling for the passage of our marker bill, the Fair Credit for Farmers Act, which “directly addresses many of the barriers farmers face as they attempt to access credit at the Farm Service Agency.” Read the full opinion on InForum.com.
Farm Aid adds its voice to food and farm policy
A recent article from Food Safety News reports on Farm Aid’s endorsement of the Fair Credit for Farmers Act, one of the marker bills in our Farm Bill platform. Farm Aid’s policy and advocacy manager, Hannah Tremblay, is quoted in the article: The Fair Credit for Farmers Act makes important reforms to FSA, protecting farmers and making ...
Pesticide-drift concerns still hang over ag industry
Glenn Pulse is an organic farmer in South Dakota and a member of our coalition through Dakota Rural Action. He recently spoke to Public News Service about the environmental impacts of dicamba weed-killers. Glenn Pulse, co-owner of an organic farm in Vermillion, said a 2017 drift incident had a big impact on his operation. “Our entire farm was ...
Lawmakers Consider Bill Restricting US Corporate Ownership of America’s Farmland
Hoosier Ag Today cited our coalition in a new article about corporate farmland grabs. Fran Miller from our partner, the Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, was interviewed about our policy proposal, the Farmland for Farmers Act. The article reports that the bill would “restrict corporations and multi-layered subsidiaries, pension funds, and investment ...
Corporate land grabs are “decimating rural communities”
AgNet West recently spoke to Fran Miller, one of policy our partners at the Vermont Law & Graduate School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. She spoke about the negative impacts of corporate investment in farmland, as well as our proposed solution, the Farmland for Farmers Act. Fran says about corporate land grabbing, “It’s decimating rural ...
Investors see big returns on farmland — are they pricing out farmers?
We recently appeared in a News Nation article about the spike in farmland acquisitions by private investors. Our policy proposal, the Farmland for Farmers Act, would protect farmland from corporation land grabs and speculation. Jordan Treakle from the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) is concerned about the deep-pocketed investors. He worries they’ll price out smaller farmers and further consolidate the ...
Appealing for Relief: A New Report About Farmers’ Experiences with Farm Loan Decisions
A new report about the Farm Service Agency’s appeals division has been published by the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law and Graduate School in partnership with Farm Aid and RAFI, a member of our coalition. The report finds that farmers who had been denied federal loans by the FSA won only 17% ...
Court bans popular but controversial pesticide
Former NFFC board president and Iowa farmer George Naylor recently shared his concerns about dicamba herbicides for Public News Service. A federal court has banned the use of a highly controversial but popular pesticide in the Midwest. Advocates for sustainable agriculture said the ruling is long overdue. The Environmental Protection Agency first approved dicamba in 2017 for spraying on genetically engineered corn and ...
Making history, Virginia legislators pass minimum wage for farmworkers
For the first time in history, the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation to extend minimum wage protections to the state’s farmworkers and migrant workers. The bill’s fate will now be determined by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. NFFC’s senior policy adviser, Antonio Tovar, was recently interviewed on this topic by Blue Virginia. NFFC has long advocated for living ...
Campaign for Contract Agriculture Reform: “Protect poultry transparency”
NFFC recently appeared in Lancaster Farming on behalf of the Campaign for Contract Agriculture Reform (CCAR). Our national alliance of farmers and ranchers urges Congress to ensure a fair and equitable system between growers and poultry companies. On Feb. 12, USDA’s final rule on poultry transparency went into effect. This is the first of several important rules ...
Our perspectives and voices of our members in selected national and local media in the last year.