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Congress Wants to Block Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farmland. Is This a Red Herring?
As this new Ambrook Research article reports, members of Congress have recently introduced legislation that would prevent international investment in farmland, stoking fears about Chinese investments in particular. While internationally-based US land investment is a definite concern, the real risk to US farmland comes from within our own borders. As our National Program Coordinator, Jordan Treakle, ...
New Report Details Three Decades of Dairy Devastation
This Food and Power article highlights a new report by Food & Water Watch, NFFC’s longtime ally fighting corporate consolidation in the food and farm system, particularly the dairy sector. Like Food & Water Watch, Sarah Lloyd – Wisconsin dairy farmer and NFFC/Family Farm Defenders member – scolds the US approach of encouraging and exporting ...
What is the Real Threat to US Farmers Owning Farmland?
Based on research by NFFC and Vermont Law School’s Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS), “the real threat to our food security…. is broader corporate ownership and consolidation of American farmland — including by domestic investors”. NFFC appreciates Lela Nargi’s dive into this question for Ambrook Research which highlights our four reports on land ...
Senators Propose Eliminating Tax Liability for IRA-Assisted Farmers
NFFC joined a number of members and allies endorsing Senators Booker (D-NJ), Stabenow (D-MI), Warnock (D-GA), and Smith (D-MN) Family Farmer and Rancher Tax Fairness Act, which would remove the tax liability for distressed farmers and ranchers who received assistance from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. This IRA, passed in August and signed ...
Women Must Be At the Table
This article in Ms. Magazine stated: “That’s triggered another old American tradition: land grabs. The National Family Farm Coalition has partnered with Vermont Law School to create four reports on state and federal laws overseeing land access with that history in mind. If you picture your local farmer as a guy with a green John Deere ...
Diverse Groups Urge Congress to Enact American Beef Labeling Act
A January 10, 2023, letter was sent to the American Beef Labeling Act’s bipartisan group of Senate cosponsors and bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives. The letter reveals that the objective of the American Beef Labeling Act is to ensure that beef produced from US-born and -raised cattle is distinguished in the marketplace and that consumers ...
Loss of Parity, Price Floors and Supply Management in 1950s Haunts Farmers Today
Matt West is a fifth-generation farmer in Elk Valley, Tennessee, raising corn, soybeans, wheat, melons, and sweet potatoes. Although he finds farming satisfying, he laments the rising input costs, labor shortages, and ongoing situation of farmers as price-takers. As quoted in the article, NFFC has written that “… farm policy encourages farmers to plant as ...
USFSA Food Sovereignty Prize Honors Organizations Across Continents
The Daily Yonder reported on the US Food Sovereignty Alliance’s 2022 Food Sovereignty Prize, which serves to counter the World Food Prize, first awarded in 1987 to highlight the Green Revolution’s means to increase global food supplies. Darnella Winston of the Mississippi Association of Cooperatives (a member of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, ...
Peasant Agroecology is at the Heart of the Movement for Food Sovereignty
In La Via Campesina’s August 2022 newsletter, they mention that members and allies have often noted that a radical overhaul of the global food system is urgent and necessary to address the interwoven crises of hunger, migration, poverty and global warming. The movement has insisted that food sovereignty achieved through peasant agroecology is a critical ...
Dairy Farmers Head to DC to Push Dairy Revitalization Plan
NFFC and other representatives from the Dairy Together Coalition met in DC to urge Members of Congress to support the Dairy Revitalization Plan, which calls for coordinated milk production growth among dairy producers to stabilize and improve prices. The USDA recorded the loss of 17,000 dairy farms over the last decade, including 7,500 since the ...
Our perspectives and voices of our members in selected national and local media in the last year.