Dear Supporter, Wherever there’s local food, there are farmers feeding communities and creating jobs.  Farmers and ranchers are responding to skyrocketing demand for fresh, healthy food everywhere – at farmers’ markets, grocery stores, and in schools across the nation.  At the same time, the farmers and ranchers across the country who feed us are getting Read the Rest…

Dear Supporter, The meat industry has worked tirelessly to drive independent producers out of business.  Agribusiness giants like Monsanto want to overstep judicial processes and plant genetically engineered crops even if a court has ruled that the crops were approved illegally.  And guess what?  Some members of the Senate are on their side. The Senate’s Read the Rest…

Dear Supporter, Unless the Senate acts to fix the situation next week, 2013 is on track to be the worst setback for sustainable agriculture in years.  Opportunities for farmers to implement smart conservation practices will be severely limited.  Training opportunities for the next generation of beginning and minority farmers will dry up.  Microloans to the Read the Rest…

This update was sent to supporters on February 1, 2013 – stay tuned for more details and opportunities to take action soon! We made major progress last year on the food and farm policy front.  While they weren’t perfect, draft versions of the 2012 Farm Bill in Congress included long-overdue reforms, investments in the future Read the Rest…

Dear Supporter, No more elections.  No more endless campaign commercials, debates, and discussions. Finally, Congress is back on Capitol Hill – let’s hope they’re ready to get to work! What’s on the legislative agenda for the lame duck session?  Together, we can make sure the 2012 Farm Bill is on that list.  Because there’s too Read the Rest…

Dear Supporter, Now that you’ve cast your ballot in the 2012 election, it’s time to vote once more – only this time, for a better food and farm system for our nation!  We’re delivering thousands of signatures to Capitol Hill next week – will yours be one of them? By signing your name to this Read the Rest…

Dear Supporter, What’s scarier than a food system built on industrial mega-farms that’s rigged to favor corporations and processed junk over family farmers and healthy local food?  Not much. Last month, Congress left town just as the current farm bill expired, leaving critical farm programs high and dry with no funding – and dodging the Read the Rest…

Dear Supporter, Our message to Congress has been clear all year:  we need an equitable, sustainable farm bill, and we need it this year.   Unfortunately, either Congress didn’t hear us, or they just didn’t listen. Congress left town just as the current farm bill expired, and they didn’t bother to finish a new bill or Read the Rest…

September:  it’s harvest time.  Corn, tomatoes, pumpkins, apples and more are all coming in from the fields… as well as, with any luck, a new 2012 Farm Bill! It’s been pretty quiet on the farm bill front here in Washington, DC lately – legislators have been at home all month, meeting with folks like you.  Read the Rest…

Dear Supporter, Across the nation, farmers’ livelihoods are withering in an intense, record-breaking drought.* Congress could be doing something about this right now – they could be passing the 2012 Farm Bill, which funds critical disaster assistance programs that are our farmers and ranchers’ safety net in times like these. But are they working to Read the Rest…