Enough Is Enough Tour

Farmers and ranchers are demanding a fair farm bill.

FARMERS HAVE HAD ENOUGH

Farmers and ranchers are gathering to protest government policies that favor the largest food industry giants as the national “Enough Is Enough Tour” surges across the U.S. this spring.

With Congress preparing to debate the farm bill during prime planting and calving season, restricting farmers’ and ranchers’ ability to bring their voices to Washington D.C., farm groups will gather at events in six states to call on Congress to deliver a bill that levels the playing field.

The Enough Is Enough Tour is a unified platform for farmers and ranchers to voice the disastrous impacts of the current system on their lives and livelihoods, and to demand reforms that bring prosperity and fair competition to agriculture. The tour is endorsed by 16 farm organizations and sponsored and organized by Farm Action and Farm Action Fund.

SPOTLIGHTING CHECKOFF PROGRAM REFORM

A major focus of the tour is to highlight corruption in government checkoff programs, which collect one billion dollars from producers annually. Checkoff programs have funded famous promotional campaigns like “Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner” and “Pork. The Other White Meat.”

Started as a way for farmers to voluntarily pool their money to boost the overall sales of their products, checkoff programs have evolved into a behind-the-scenes government machine extracting money from farmers against their will — and then funneling it to corporate lobbyists.

America’s farmers and ranchers are being forced to pay into checkoff programs, only to see their dollars used against them by lobbying organizations representing the world’s largest meatpackers and grain traders. Learn more about checkoff program corruption.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH TOUR EVENTS

Tour events will take place across the country, hosted by grassroots and national organizations representing the interests of our nation’s food producers:

  • May 14 | Clearwater, MN | Hosted by American Grassfed Association and Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed
  • May 22 | Osseo, WI | Hosted by Wisconsin Farmers Union
  • May 24 | Nicodemus, KS | Hosted by Kansas Black Farmers Association
  • May 29 | Columbiana, OH | Hosted by Buckeye Quality Beef Association, Ohio Farmers Union, and Pennsylvania Farmers Union
  • May 31 | Guntersville, AL | Hosted by Alabama Contract Poultry Growers Association, Competitive Markets Action, and the Organization for Competitive Markets
  • June 4 | Bismarck, ND | Hosted by Dakota Resource Council


Everyone can support the tour’s mission by
purchasing a USA-made Enough Is Enough t-shirt! Proceeds will go toward our efforts to keep farmers feeding America.

Scroll down to see the tour in action!

VOICES FROM THE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH TOUR

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