NSAC’s comprehensive 2023 Farm Bill Platform provides title-by-title recommendations across farm bill programs and policies detailing how Congress can better support farmers and ranchers by strengthening their bottom lines, their communities, and their resilience. The platform spans key issue areas including natural resource conservation, local and regional food systems, sustainable agriculture research, structural reform to farm programs, and more, with cross-cutting recommendations, focused on advancing racial equity across farm bill programs, supporting beginning farmers, and addressing the climate crisis and its impacts on our food and farms.
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We published a 5-part blog post series diving into the platform. Read them all here:
- Part 1: Toward a More Resilient and Equitable Food and Farm System
- Part 2: Investing in Healthy Communities
- Part 3: Leveling the Playing Field
- Part 4: Building a Climate-Resilient Future
- Part 5: Advancing Racial Equity Across the Food System
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Endorsements
- NSAC’s platform has been endorsed by the following Coalition members as of November 2022:
Represented Members
- Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association- Salinas, CA
- CCOF – Santa Cruz, CA
- California FarmLink – Santa Cruz, CA
- C.A.S.A. del Llano (Communities Assuring a Sustainable Agriculture) – Hereford, TX
- Catholic Rural Life – St. Paul, MN
- Center for Rural Affairs – Lyons, NE
- Clagett Farm/Chesapeake Bay Foundation – Upper Marlboro, MD
- Community Alliance with Family Farmers – Davis, CA
- CISA: Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture – South Deerfield, MA
- Dakota Rural Action – Brookings, SD
- Delta Land and Community, Inc. – Almyra, AR
- Ecological Farming Association – Soquel, CA
- Florida Organic Growers – Gainesville, FL
- FoodCorps – Portland, OR
- GrassWorks – New Holstein, WI
- Hmong National Development, Inc. – St. Paul, MN and Washington, DC
- Illinois Stewardship Alliance – Springfield, IL
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy – Minneapolis, MN
- Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative – Sebastopol, CA
- Izaak Walton League of America – St. Paul, MN and Gaithersburg, MD
- Kansas Rural Center – Topeka, KS
- The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture – Poteau, OK
- Land Stewardship Project – Minneapolis, MN
- MAFO – St. Cloud, MN
- Michael Fields Agricultural Institute – East Troy, WI
- Michigan Food & Farming Systems – MIFFS – East Lansing, MI
- Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance – Lansing, MI
- Marbleseed – Spring Valley, WI
- Missouri Coalition for the Environment – St. Louis, MO
- Montana Organic Association – Missoula, MT
- The National Center for Appropriate Technology – Butte, MT
- National Center for Frontier Communities – Silver City, NM
- National Hmong American Farmers – Fresno, CA
- Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society – Ceresco, NE
- Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance – Deerfield, MA
- Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society – LaMoure, ND
- Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides – Eugene, OR
- Nourish Colorado – Denver, CO
- Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association – Columbus, OH
- Oregon Tilth – Corvallis, OR
- Organic Farming Research Foundation – Santa Cruz, CA
- Organic Seed Alliance – Port Townsend, WA
- Pasa Sustainable Agriculture – Harrisburg, PA
- Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA – Pittsboro, NC
- Savanna Institute – Champaign, IL
- Union of Concerned Scientists Food and Environment Program – Cambridge, MA
- Virginia Association for Biological Farming – Lexington, VA
- Wild Farm Alliance – Watsonville, CA
- Women, Food, and Agriculture Network – Ames, IA
Participating and Ally Members
- California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN) – Sacramento, CA
- Certified Naturally Grown – Temple, NH
- Cultivate Kansas City – Kansas City, Mo
- Equity Advocates – New York, NY
- Farms to Grow, Inc – Oakland, CA
- Farm to Table – New Mexico – Albuquerque, NM
- Farmers Market Coalition – Albany, CA
- Hazon – New York, NY
- Illinois Stewardship Alliance – Springfield, IL
- National Young Farmers Coalition – Albany, NY
- No More Empty Pots – Omaha, NE
- Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides – Eugene, OR
- Oregon Climate and Agriculture Network – Eugene, OR
- Slow Food USA – New York, NY