As of this month, our nation’s food and farm policy in the form of the 2008 Farm Bill has officially expired, with no workable replacement moving forward in Congress. This has left critical programs high and dry with no funding – and means Congress dodged the chance to make real reforms and an investment in an equitable, sustainable future for food and farms in America.
With no new farm bill or extension, the programs that address rural and urban job creation, training opportunities for beginning farmers, natural resource conservation, and access to healthy food are in big trouble.
Can Congress still finish a farm bill this year? YES!
There is a short window of time for Congress to finish the bill when they return to DC after Election Day. So when Congress returns to the Hill, we’ll need YOU and other farmers and advocates across the country to tell them loud and clear: we need an equitable, sustainable 2012 Farm Bill!
Stonyfield is joining forces with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition to support a major grassroots effort across the nation to make our voices heard. Sign onto the citizens’ petition today – and mark your calendar for a national day of action on November 15!
Sign your name to the petition (click here) and tell Congress we need a 2012 Farm Bill that:
Invests in the future of healthy farms, food, and people
Protects our precious air, soil, and water
Reforms farm subsidies and levels the playing field.
America needs to protect its’ small family farmers and a strong,spportive farm bill.. We the people want a food source with less pesticide and not Big Ag GMOs.
We need to protect the small farmers and sustainable farms.
This is an important issue. We need family farms and organic farming for the health of our nation
Small and mid-size farms are struggling to make ends meet. Without a Farm Bill, we will see many more farms being sold off for more housing. This is NOT acceptable for our people or our planet. Congress – PLEASE get together and put partisanship aside for the good of our farms! As a farm manager, I can tell you we need help to stay afloat.
i trust that each party will come together for the good of the planet, the health of the people and just because it’s the “right ” thing to do.
a nation is judged by the way they treat their animals. with no heart of kindness for animals, it is easier to have no heart for people.
We need a bill to protect our small farms. I think they ought to do away with the big factory farms for our health and the health of the animals! Congress better get something done for our hard working farmers.
Now that the election is ove, Congress must sit down and pass a farm bill that will enable us to have local organic farms and no GMO’s.
Small Farms are small businesses and the government should support them. After all….the small farms feed us healthy organic food. We need the 2012 Farm Bill.
We HAVE to stay organic. Please pass the bill for us and our children.
Congress, please leave the mule-ish behavior on the farm and do something worthwhile for your country. For once!
Yes we need to protect our small farms!
The farm bill is essential for sustainable and organic smaller farms. It is needed to assure farm jobs; good, healthy food; and care of our land and water. Pass a farm bill NOW!
its not the governments responsibility to pay for farming. if farming is a lucrative business, then it will prosper, if not, it will fail. its called a free market. if you love socialism so much, move to a socialist country, dont ruin our country. we shouldnt borrow money from other countries to fund farming.
The Farm Bill is necessary to maintain the viability of family farms in America. I don’t want to eat food from unknown sources or from places that do not have the food quality restrictions that we have.
Please pass the farm bill before the end of the year. Time to get it done!
Please pass the 2012 farm bill. I grew up on a farm in Iowa and now live in North Carolina. Farm subsidies are no longer required as they once were, they no longer protect and help the small farmers. Most of the family farms where I grew up are no longer FAMILY farms. Support the food producers of this nation and the world.
We ALL need to support our farmer in their efforts to sustain and encourage responsible farming.
It makes me sick to see other countries sending their produce, when we have the best resources right here in the United States of America.
Why go to foreign countries when we know our best ally is U.S.?
Support American Farmers!!!
A farm bill for sustainable and organic smaller farms is needed to assure farm jobs; good, healthy food; and care of our land and water. Pass a farm bill for these farms in short order!
Congress, we need a farm bill that invests and in the future of healthy farms, food, and people
Protects our precious air, soil, and water Reforms farm subsidies and levels the playing field.
Only for small farms please!
We need to protect small farms!! Especially the ones working so hard to use sustainable farming!
The United States of America needs to protect its’ small family farms with a spportive Farm Bill. This needs to happen sooner, not later.
We need a 2012 Farm Bill, to protect small farms.
We, as a country, need to increasingly promote the agricultural practices that the Organic standards espouse. We especially need to because we have a growing population and a decreasing number of farm related jobs. Collectively, the Organic standards ensure that a small farm or an individual can make a fair living from farming – WE NEED more people in farming!
Thank you.
Francisco
We need a farm that supports organic sustainable agriculture to guarantee the survivial of the family farm.
We need a 2012 Farm Bill, to protect small farms.
The Farm Bill should be only for small farmers not the big factory farms.
I know it’s a big bill but it’s also a big deal. Get it done.
Why does the government need to be involved in every little thing that people want to do? Why can we, the people, do our farming and be organic and sustainable on our own? Keep the government out of it. All they do is mess things up.
Yes, we need a 2012 Farm Bill.