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Financing Program Expanded to Help Farmers

May 5, 2016 // 1 Comment

BREAKING NEWS Federal Low Interest Financing Program Expanded to Help Farmers Reach Local Food Markets – Small and mid-scale family farms operating in burgeoning [...]

Young Farmers in the News

April 29, 2016 // 2 Comments

Young farmers in the news – National Young Farmers Coalition What Does Student Loan Forgiveness Have to Do with Farming? Everything. Kelsey Lindsey — Civil Eats and [...]

Congressional News, Climate News, USDA News, Farmer Survey

April 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

CONGRESSIONAL NEWS House Committee Votes to Strip Protections for Contract Farmers – On April 19 the House Appropriations Committee convened to debate and pass the [...]

NSAC News: GMO Labeling Preemption Bill Fails Vote

March 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition news featuring: Farmer Fly-in, Ag Appropriations, GMO Labeling Preemption Bill, Conservation Funding and much more… NSAC NEWS [...]

Congressional News, USDA News and FDA News

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

CONGRESSIONAL NEWS, USDA NEWS and FDA NEWS from the NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COALITION – MARCH 7th 2016 GMO Labeling Debate Heating Up in Senate Senate [...]

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition News

December 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition NEWS Top 15 Wins for Sustainable Agriculture in 2015 With the end of the year just around the corner, we wanted to reflect on all [...]

Congressional Farm News, Food Safety News, More

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

CONGRESSIONAL FARM NEWS Congress Passes 5-Day Funding Extension to Keep Government Open: On Friday, December 11, Congress passed a five-day extension of the previous 10-week [...]

Sustainable Agriculture News: Organic, Resources, Conservation

November 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sustainable Agriculture News: Organic News, New Resources, Conservation, and More ORGANIC NEWS New Guidebook Will Help Organic Farmers Access Conservation Programs On [...]

NFU: TPP Will Fail Family Farmers

November 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

NFU Says TPP Will Fail Family Farmers and Ranchers The following statement was issued after the release of the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The statement [...]

#FarmingIsPublicService Young Farmers’ Student Loan Campaign

October 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Young farmers tell Congress that #FarmingIsPublicService Last Wednesday farmers from six states converged in Washington, D.C. for a whirl-wind round of meetings on Capitol [...]