A Backroom Deal Threatens $1.65 Billion of Our Hard Fought for Dollars
Congress is poised to take money away from critical rural development and food security programs at the USDA. We won’t give it up without a fight.
Congress is poised to take money away from critical rural development and food security programs at the USDA. We won’t give it up without a fight.
Prompted by Farm Action and others, USDA is slowly moving to review its labeling policies. Learn more about this issue and what we’re doing about it.
While funding is an important first step, Farm Action will continue urging swift action to complete the remaining steps and break the corporate stranglehold.
Farm Action has been invited to testify before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust at a hearing on the state of food system concentration.
Democratizing our food system is a heavy lift, but in just four months, the Farm Action team has made substantial progress towards actualizing this vision. Join us to pause and reflect on the progress of the policies and people we have pushed for, and all that we have to look forward to.
Once upon a time, checkoff programs were voluntary and used money to provide producers with research, technological innovation, and market development to advance their products. But over time, checkoff programs have slid towards corruption.
Meet Farm Action Local Leader Webster (Web) Davis. Web took an active role in the drafting of our Farmers Bill of Rights, motivated by his belief that “economic and social justice are intertwined.”