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Sustainable Agriculture News – Sustainable Agriculture Funding and More

October 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

NSAC NEWS Do you know someone interested in learning what it takes to fix federal food and farm policy? The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition is currently seeking [...]

Sustainable Agriculture News – USDA Funding and More

October 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

USDA NEWS New USDA Funding to Build Local Food Systems and Food Security: On October 2, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced nearly $35 million in awards from three [...]

Sustainable Agriculture News – FSMA, Organic, and More

September 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

FDA NEWS Who is Subject to FDA’s New FSMA Food Facilities Rule? – This is a multi-part series analyzing FDA’s recently released Preventive Controls Rule [...]

Sustainable Ag News – SARE Program, FSMA Rule, Minority Farmers

September 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

USDA SUSTAINABLE AG NEWS Programs in Action: North Central SARE Recipients Build New Partnerships: The SARE program is a farmer driven research, education and extension [...]

Sustainable Agriculture News – Mid July 2015

July 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

CONGRESSIONAL NEWS What’s in the Senate Funding Bill for Sustainable Agriculture? The agriculture appropriations bill advanced today by the Senate Appropriations Committee [...]

National Farmers Union Comments on Anti-Farmer Appropriations Bill

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

NFU Strongly Objects to Anti-Family Farmer Provisions Snuck Into Appropriations Bill WASHINGTON (Dec. 10, 2014) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson and [...]

Food Policy / Small Business Internship in the Hamptons

April 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Opportunity to spend the summer (2014) in the Hamptons while supporting local farms and food businesses! The Amagansett Food Institute (AFI) is a small non-profit that [...]

Sustainable Agriculture Policy Updates from April 1-6 2014

April 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Policy and Politics: Updates from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) from the Week of April 1st-6th, 2014 FSMA News: Big Week for Animal Food [...]

Is Agriculture at the Center of the Immigration Debate?

July 30, 2013 // 0 Comments

Is Agriculture at the Center of the Immigration Debate? The White House released a report this month attempting to connect the dots between immigration reform and the [...]

Immigration Reform and Agriculture – Farmer Organizations Weigh in

July 2, 2013 // 1 Comment

Immigration Reform and Agriculture: Farmer Organizations Praise Legislation Press releases from the National Farmers Union and United Fresh (the nation’s largest produce [...]