The National Farmers Union (NFU) Board of Directors unanimously passed a resolution today indicating the obligation of Congress to provide certainty for our nation’s family farmers, ranchers and consumers by passing a five-year farm bill and by continuing to support Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
Farmers Union | Conservation District Partnership
Pennsylvania Farmers Union will donate $10 of every new membership or renewal to the member’s local conservation district.
Farmers Union | Conservation District Partnership
Pennsylvania Farmers Union will donate $10 of every new membership or renewal to the member’s local conservation district.
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The farm bill is really a food, energy and jobs bill, and all consumers, farmers and rural Americans have a responsibility to be engaged in the farm bill debate.
Farmers Union Partners with Pennsylvania Certified Organic to Raise Funds!
Pennsylvania Farmers Union is partnering with Pennsylvania Certified Organic (PCO) at the 2nd Annual PCO FarmFest!
Trust is valuable and fragile
by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Read the original post at agpolicy.org. “Love. It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru.” With that adline, Subaru was able to leapfrog over 11 other car makers to increase their share of the U.S. auto market over the last … Read More
Senate Democrats host rural summit
by Brittany Jablonsky, Director of Advocacy Communications Last week the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee hosted its second Senate Democratic Rural Summit. NFU President Roger Johnson, along with a number of the NFU staff and representatives of other agriculture and rural development organizations, attended the summit. The event was hosted by Sen. Mark Begich … Read More
SNAP program debates center on effectiveness and cost
by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Read the original post at agpolicy.org. In our previous column, we summarized a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) analysis of the five major nutrition programs they fund: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for … Read More
A snapshot of U.S. food and nutrition programs
by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Read the original post at agpolicy.org. Though the Dow Jones Industrial Average has topped its previous high reached in late 2007, the use of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food assistance programs remains at high levels, partly because … Read More
Letter from Langdon: Land of Milk and Honey
by Richard Oswald, Missouri Farmers Union president Read the original post at the Daily Yonder. Industrial agriculture erases the identity of our food, filtering its origins as cleanly as removing bee pollen from honey. Just mix, blend, inject it with a brand – and it’s ready for a shelf near you. Who made your food? In these … Read More