For years, we’ve issued action alerts and policy updates around important policy issues so that they can speak up to their representatives and key policymakers about policies that affect their lives. This year, we’re expanding the ways that you can engage in our policy work through the creation of our new Policy Action Network.
Aaron Johnson
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Learn about the USDA’s Farmer Fairness Portal to report an experience or observation of a possible violation of the Packers and Stockyards Act or other federal fair competition laws in the livestock sector.
Learn more about the USDA’s Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program which provides $1 billion in guaranteed loans to “facilitate financing for the start-up or expansion of activities in the middle of the food supply chain, particularly the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, or distribution of food, to increase capacity and help create a more resilient, diverse, and secure U.S. food supply chain.”
Earlier this year, the USDA announced that it would propose three rule changes related to the Packers and Stockyards Act to strengthen its ability to enforce the protections afforded by the Act to U.S. farmers. The good news is that the current political landscape offers our best chance in years to secure the reforms contract farmers need.
A mother/son team of poultry farmers in Mississippi shared their concerns last week about the Cargill/Continental Grain merger with Sanderson Farms. The Washington Post and FERN both told their story.