The Hill | Five Fights Brewing in the Crucial $1.4 Trillion Farm Bill
Decades of farm bill programs have driven family farmers out of business and enabled a few giant corporations to dominate our food system, explains Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
Decades of farm bill programs have driven family farmers out of business and enabled a few giant corporations to dominate our food system, explains Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
The USDA’s proposed “Product of U.S.A.” label rule would help “stop the cheaters picking the pockets of America’s farmers and ranchers,” said Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
Farm Action and a coalition of organizations representing agriculture, health, faith, academia, conservation, labor, and animal welfare highlighted the need for agriculture policy reform in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. is faced with an historic trade deficit for produce and impending opportunities for farm system change. In a poll conducted by GQR on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, voters across the spectrum called for food, not feed.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell and Basel Musharbash shared evidence suggesting that dominant egg companies are using supply chain disruptions like the avian flu as an excuse to gouge consumers.
Willie Cade, a Farm Action Local Leader and right to repair advocate, is concerned Deere is only agreeing to the memorandum to publicly placate critics.
Fertilizer corporations blamed 2022’s record-breaking prices on market disruptions, but Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says monopolistic practices are to blame.
USDA Secretary Vilsack should be helping U.S. corn farmers access a premium market, says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.
Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell says USDA should stop defending genetically modified corn and help farmers transition to non-GM methods, which would put “more money in their pockets.”
Allowing foreign corporations unlimited access to U.S. farmland drives up property values and prices Missourians out of farming, says Farm Action’s Joe Maxwell.