GIPSA Defends Meatpackers and Poultry Companies, Not Family Farmers
Contact: Quinton Robinson, 703-975-4466, quintonnrobinson@nffc.net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 17, 2017 Washington, DC – The National Family Farm Coalition is frustrated and disgusted by USDA’s decision to pull the pending Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rules designed to level the playing field for poultry and livestock producers. These rules have been languishing since the 2008 farm ...
Over 200 Groups Urge Congress to Level the Playing Field for Farmers, Workers and Consumers
Diverse Coalition Calls for Farm Bill to Address Competition in the Food System Washington, DC — Today, a broad-based coalition of 210 farm, rural, worker and consumer advocacy organizations released principles for a fairer farm bill that would address the lack of competition in every link in the food chain. The groups point out that growing ...
Farmers & Farm Organizations Urge EPA & USDA to Address Threat from Dicamba Pesticide Drift
Farmers Challenge Monsanto CEO’s Definition of “Success” Washington, DC – As members of Congress return to Capitol Hill today, 85 farm and farmer support organizations sent letters to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging them to better protect farm families from an unprecedented spike in crop loss from herbicide ...
Family Farm Groups from Three Countries Slam NAFTA Reboot Based on TPP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 15, 2017 As the formal talks to renegotiate NAFTA begin in Washington, DC this week, family farm organizations from Canada, the United States and Mexico denounce the direction of the talks. Despite repeated demands by civil society organizations in all three countries, the governments have refused to open the talks to the public ...
Farm and Food Groups Say Bayer-Monsanto Merger Will Create Vegetable Seed Monopoly
Two Dozen Organizations Call on Justice Department to Block Proposed Merger August 2, 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, 24 farm, consumer and rural advocacy organizations urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block the proposed merger between Bayer AG and Monsanto Corporation. In a letter sent to DOJ today the groups detailed the potential anticompetitive effects ...
National Family Farm Coalition: Renegotiating NAFTA Not a Solution
Rural America Cannot Export (or Import) Its Way Out of Financial Ruin FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 21, 2017 Contact: Quinton Robinson, 202-543-5675 QuintonNRobinson@nffc.net Washington, DC – The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) asserts that the Trump Administration’s push to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will not solve the key issues currently devastating rural America. The low prices ...
Pro Ag Holds Press Conference in Tunkhannock
June 5, 2017 At a press conference held at the Perkins Restaurant in Tunkhannock, Arden Tewksbury, Manager of Progressive Agriculture Organization (Pro-Ag) announced that several farm organizations, milk cooperatives, and county commissioners have petitioned the USDA in Washington DC asking for a national milk hearing for all dairy farmers. The petition clearly asks the Department of ...
Replace NAFTA – Return Community Control Over Food and Farms
May 18, 2017 The independent family farming, ranching and fishing members of the National Family Farm Coalition have watched their incomes drop, their markets close and their communities deteriorate since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passed in 1993. It is time for a new and fair trade agreement that supports independent farmers and fishermen ...
TIAA Must Stop Funding Deforestation and Land Grabs
Coalition of environmental, human rights, and farm and farm worker groups will march to TIAA’s NYC office to deliver petitions demanding the company stop funding divest from destructive palm oil companies and land grabbing. April 14, 2017 NEW YORK, NY – On Thursday, April 20, a coalition of environmental, human rights and farm organizations as well as ...
Farm and Food Groups Oppose Agricultural Mega Mergers
Call on new DOJ leader to put farmer, consumer, worker interests above corporations – Kate Colwell WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly 325 farming, beekeeping, farmworker, religious, food safety, and conservation advocacy groups today urged the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation into the proposed mergers of the world’s largest agrochemical and seed companies. Groups urged ...
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