Debate on the 2007 Farm Bill is STILL underway, which means we need to keep pressing for a fair farm bill that supports small, family, organic, and sustainable farmers!
If your senator or representative serves on the agriculture committee, please contact him/her before the March 15th deadline. Please ask your representative to fully fund these critical priorities:
$2 billion in additional mandatory funding over the next five years for the Conservation Security Program (CSP)
$15 million in annual mandatory funding for the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program and $5 million in annual mandatory funding for the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Individual Development Account Program
$40 million in annual mandatory funding for the Value-Added Producer Grant
$16 million in annual mandatory funding for the Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative
Not sure if your senator or representative serves on an ag committee? Here's the list for the Midwest region:
SENATE
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Max Baucus (D-MT)
Kent Conrad (R-ND)
Charles Grassley (R-IA)
HOUSE
Collin Peterson (MN-7th)
Leonard Boswell (IA-3rd)
Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (SD)
Earl Pomeroy (ND)
CALL TODAY: Capitol Switchboard 202.224.3121
Ask for your senator or representative.
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