FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melisa Augusto, 202-314-3191 maugusto@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (Jan. 17, 2014) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson expressed cautious optimism after the U.S. Senate and House of … Read More
NFU Women’s Conference Provides Skills, Guidance to Participants
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melisa Augusto, 202-314-3191 maugusto@nfudc.org CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 14, 2014) – National Farmers Union’s (NFU) 2014 Women’s Conference will conclude today in Clearwater Beach, Fla. This … Read More
NFU Opposed to Proposed Fast-Track Trade Authority
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melisa Augusto, 202-314-3191 maugusto@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (Jan. 13, 2014) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson voiced opposition today to a bill, introduced last week by … Read More
COOL Arguments Heard in Court
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Melisa Augusto, 202-554-1600 maugusto@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (Jan. 9, 2014) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson issued the following statement following the Court of Appeals for … Read More
National Youth Advisory Council’s Violet Green
National Youth Advisory Council member Violet Green talks about #MyFarmBill.
Trust is valuable and fragile
by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Read the original post at agpolicy.org. “Love. It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru.” … Read More
Senate Democrats host rural summit
by Brittany Jablonsky, Director of Advocacy Communications Last week the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee hosted its second Senate Democratic Rural Summit. NFU President Roger Johnson, along with a … Read More
SNAP program debates center on effectiveness and cost
by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Read the original post at agpolicy.org. In our previous column, we summarized a … Read More
A snapshot of U.S. food and nutrition programs
by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. Read the original post at agpolicy.org. Though the Dow Jones Industrial Average has … Read More
Letter from Langdon: Land of Milk and Honey
by Richard Oswald, Missouri Farmers Union president Read the original post at the Daily Yonder. Industrial agriculture erases the identity of our food, filtering its origins as cleanly as removing bee pollen … Read More