The USDA must finalize, implement, and enforce strong rules to protect the rights of poultry growers, improve competition and transparency, and firmly address exploitative practices in the poultry industry.
Comments on Transparency in Poultry Grower Contracting and Tournaments
The USDA must finalize, implement, and enforce strong rules to protect the rights of poultry growers, improve competition and transparency, and firmly address exploitative practices in the poultry industry.
Could Price Parity, Supply Management Change the Game for BIPOC Farmers?
According to a new coalition of farmers, growers, and academics led by the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), keeping existing farmers of color on the land—and helping new ones get started—will only be possible if they can get a price for their food that’s more than what it costs to produce it.
NFFC Supports John Deere Workers
Whether it is keeping wages and benefits for workers or forcing farmers into binding service contracts for their exorbitantly priced machinery—it all comes down to corporate control over working people.
A Fairer Deal for Farmers
NFFC farmers have long identified unfair prices as a huge barrier to viability, and a large contributor to inequality and injustice.
We Have Always Had the Solution to Crises Like COVID-19
NFFC has always worked with family farmers to advocate for policies that support healthy, sustainable communities and prevent crises like COVID-19.
The Current Farm Crisis Offers Opportunity For Change
In these times of low farm prices, devastating floods, massive soil loss, wildfires and people demanding an ethical, healthy diet, the time could be ripe to end our system of industrial farming and replace it with agroecology.
Small Gains, Big Disappointments in Status Quo Farm Bill
National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) applauds the rejection of punitive work requirements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the inclusion of several “small but mighty” provisions in the final text of the farm bill released today, including measures developed by NFFC to improve credit access. However, NFFC does not support the overall status quo direction of the bill, which does not go far enough to improve the lives and livelihoods of family farmers and rural communities.
Farmers Need Fair Prices, Not NAFTA-Lite and Meager Tariff Aid
Trump Administration measures announced this week will not return prosperity to rural America.
NFFC Statement on $12 Billion Trade Bailout
Family Farmers and Ranchers Seek Economic Empowerment, not Taxpayer Bailout
Farmers and Allies Urge Immediate Government Action to End Dairy Crisis
More than 50 family farmer, labor, and consumer organizations urged federal agriculture policymakers to take immediate steps to help US dairy farmers, who have struggled for years with milk prices that are well below their costs of production.