By Tom Driscoll, government relations representative, National Farmers Union Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the first food waste reduction goal … Read More
Month: October 2015
NFU Appreciates Interagency Climate Change and Food Security Report, Suggests Contributors Also Examine Food System Consolidation and Climate Change
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 9, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (October 9, 2015) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson said the organization of 200,000 family farmers, … Read More
NFU Audio: Roger Johnson on the TPP, Currency Manipulation
NFU President Roger Johnson talks about NFU’s objection to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
NFU Vigorously Opposes TPP Without Currency Manipulation Enforcement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 5, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (October 5, 2015) – The following statement was released in response to the agreement finalizing the Trans-Pacific Partnership … Read More
What We Know About the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Agriculture
By Barbara Patterson, government relations representative, National Farmers Union Earlier today, trade ministers from each of the twelve Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries held a joint press conference in Atlanta to … Read More
Our Farmers and Ranchers Perform a Public Service
By Congressman Chris Gibson (NY-19) The average age of the American farmer is 58, and farmers over the age of 65 outnumber farmers under the age of 35 by a … Read More
NFU Hails Cooperatives and the Empowerment They Bring to Rural America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 1, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (October 1, 2015) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson today hailed the nation’s many and varied … Read More
NFU Hails Cooperatives and the Empowerment They Bring to Rural America
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 1, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (October 1, 2015) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson today hailed the nation’s many and varied … Read More
Cooperatives: A Tool for Empowering Rural America
By Roger Johnson, president, National Farmers Union October is National Cooperative Month, a point on the calendar when more than 29,000 cooperatives from across the nation undertake some form of … Read More
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