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Family Farm Organizations From US, Canada Oppose New NAFTA
Family Farm Organizations From US, Canada Oppose New NAFTA.
Family Farmers Outraged by EPA Reapproval of Dicamba
National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) is outraged that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) renewed registration of Xtendimax, Monsanto’s (now Bayer) dicamba-based herbicide. The controversial pesticide is extremely prone to drift and as a result has damaged millions of acres of crops and pollinator habitat in the two seasons since its approval.
NFFC Requests DOJ Reconsider Monsanto-Bayer Approval
The National Family Farm Coalition is extremely disappointed that the US Department of Justice has approved the Monsanto-Bayer merger and kindly requests that you reconsider your decision. Representing approximately 70,000 family farmers and ranchers throughout the US, our members have raised fears since the merger was first announced in 2016, and several were among the majority (90-plus percent) of farmers who opposed the merger in a recent survey by Friends of the Earth US.
Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer Monsanto Merger
Ben Burkett, NFFC former board president raising soy, old growth pine trees and roughly 20 different vegetables in Mississippi, added, “As a 4th generation family farmer this merger concentrates too much seed stock and intellectual property into one company, further declining rural America.”
Farm and Food Groups Say Bayer-Monsanto Merger Will Create Vegetable Seed Monopoly
The proposed deal would join the world’s largest and fourth largest vegetable seed companies, further tightening the stranglehold of the already concentrated vegetable seed industry.
Spring Newsletter has Sprung!
As Spring has finally arrived, so has our latest Newsletter.
Concentration in Seed Industry – Less Choice, Higher Prices
American farmers are feeling the effects of a concentrated seed industry. Seed options are diminishing while prices increase at historic rates. A new report, Out of hand: Farmers face the consequences of a consolidated seed industry, examines these troubling trends, substantiating the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into alleged anticompetitive conduct in the seed industry.