Independent Hog Farmers Launch D.C. Campaign Supporting Prop 12
The campaign aims to ensure that family farmers are heard in D.C. as corporate meatpackers are lobbying aggressively to overturn California’s Proposition 12.
The campaign aims to ensure that family farmers are heard in D.C. as corporate meatpackers are lobbying aggressively to overturn California’s Proposition 12.
California’s Proposition 12 has created a critical market opportunity for independent hog producers across the country.
This bill would enshrine protections for farmers against the largest multinational agrichemical corporations working to silence them.
Farm Action and Farm Action Fund’s policy recommendations call for a shift in U.S. government farm support programs and policies to align with the administration’s stated public health goals.
The bipartisan Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act would support America’s farmers and ranchers by bringing transparency and accountability to USDA’s commodity checkoff programs.
Farm Action Fund led a letter urging support for the Honor Farmer Contracts Act after the USDA froze or canceled funding it promised for critical farm projects.
“We have a chronic disease epidemic, and agriculture is the key to Make America Healthy Again. We look forward to partnership on this critical issue,” said Farm Action Fund Vice President Angela Huffman.
Farm Action Fund’s handbook details actionable steps for lawmakers to transform our food and farm system into one that is fair, sustainable, and healthy.
Farm Action Fund calls on the Trump-Vance administration to take on four key issues.
The Defeat EATS coalition released statements regarding the inclusion of EATS Act language in the House farm bill ahead of the bill’s markup on May 23.
This House farm bill will only help the big get bigger off the backs of America’s taxpayers, said Farm Action Fund’s Joe Maxwell.
“We have a key window of opportunity this month to push for legislation to enact meaningful food system reform,” said Farm Action Fund’s Angela Huffman.