Twenty commerce associations representing varied agricultural, meals and environmental curiosity teams are urging Congress to cross a brand new farm invoice this 12 months. The teams not too long ago launched a marketing campaign known as “Farm Invoice for America’s Households: Sustaining Our Future.” The marketing campaign’s web site contains details about the laws and a name for the general public to become involved.
“The farm invoice is among the most impactful items of laws in terms of defending our meals provide and meals safety, advancing conservation and environmental stewardship, and making certain the women and men who produce our meals are capable of feed a rising inhabitants,” USA Rice Farmers chair Curtis Berry says. “USA Rice is advocating that Congress prioritize passage of a brand new farm invoice that ensures rice farmers can proceed doing what they do greatest – rising rice – for generations to return.”
Marketing campaign organizers observe that the farm invoice helps greater than 2 million farms overlaying almost 900 million acres of land. It instantly impacts 46 million jobs within the nation. It additionally provides greater than 9 billion meals annually to the 21 million American households who depend on Supplemental Vitamin Help Program advantages.
Different group becoming a member of the Farm Invoice for America’s Households marketing campaign embrace the American Farm Bureau Affiliation, the American Seed Commerce Affiliation, the American Sugar Alliance, the Affiliation of Public Land-Grant Universities Board on Agriculture Meeting, the American Soybean Affiliation, Geese Limitless, the Environmental Protection Fund, Farm Credit score, Feeding America, the Nationwide Alliance of Forest House owners, the Nationwide Affiliation of State Departments of Agriculture, the Nations Affiliation of Wheat Growers, the Nationwide Corn Growers Affiliation, the Nationwide Cotton Council, the Nationwide Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Nationwide Farmers Union, the Nature Conservancy, the Nationwide Pork Producers Council, america Peanut Federation and USA Rice in addition to the Nebraska, Virginia and New York Farm Bureaus.
