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Strengthen America's Family Farms and Rural Communities
Target: CongressSponsored by: Center for Rural Affairs
America is strongest when all of its people have access to genuine opportunity. To contribute to the nation's prosperity, rural America must share in it.
We must change our course and support farm and rural policy that revitalizes rural America.
The single most effective thing Congress can do to strengthen rural America is to target farm programs to family farms. Today, unlimited farm program checks subsidize large, aggressively expanding operations that drive up land costs and drive their smaller neighbors out of business. Reforming farm programs will save money, and that money can be invested in creating a future for rural America.
Rural Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial, small business development lifts the veil of poverty and dependence on low-wage work, creates economic opportunity, and brings people back to rural areas.
Beginning Farmers and Ranchers: Supporting the future of family farming and ranching through training, mentoring, and education is a down payment on a vibrant future for all of rural America.
Conservation: Conservation programs that reward farmers and ranchers for good stewardship on working lands rather than by what and how much they produce protects the soil, water, and air for all of America.
Tell Congress to support farm and rural policy that strengthens rural America!
We must change our course and support farm and rural policy that revitalizes rural America.
The single most effective thing Congress can do to strengthen rural America is to target farm programs to family farms. Today, unlimited farm program checks subsidize large, aggressively expanding operations that drive up land costs and drive their smaller neighbors out of business. Reforming farm programs will save money, and that money can be invested in creating a future for rural America.
Rural Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial, small business development lifts the veil of poverty and dependence on low-wage work, creates economic opportunity, and brings people back to rural areas.
Beginning Farmers and Ranchers: Supporting the future of family farming and ranching through training, mentoring, and education is a down payment on a vibrant future for all of rural America.
Conservation: Conservation programs that reward farmers and ranchers for good stewardship on working lands rather than by what and how much they produce protects the soil, water, and air for all of America.
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# 7,700:
7:33 am PST, Nov 22,
BARBARA DRABISKI, Ohio
I HAVE LONG FELT THAT OUR FARMERS WERE DOING A FINE JOB OF PROVIDING FOOD FOR US. OUR OWN GOVT. HAS JUST ABOUT DESTROYED THE FARMERS IN THIS COUNTRY BY NOT OFFERING HELP THAT THEY GIVE TO SO MANY WHO HAVE NOT PAID ANY TAXES HERE. I DON'T SIGN THIS PETITION TO ALLOW STATE RUN FARMING THAT I AM SURE SOMEONE HAS THEIR HAND IN FOR A PROFIT. I MEAN THE FARMER THAT USED TO BE. THE ONES WHO SLAVED AND WORKED TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES AND MADE A GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO ALL OF US. GIVE THESE PEOPLE BACK THEIR FARMS AND HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN IN THEIR FAMILIES FOR GENERATIONS. COME UP WITH SOME GOOD HONEST WAYS SO THESE PEOPLE CAN MAKE A LIVING.
I HAVE LONG FELT THAT OUR FARMERS WERE DOING A FINE JOB OF PROVIDING FOOD FOR US. OUR OWN GOVT. HAS JUST ABOUT DESTROYED THE FARMERS IN THIS COUNTRY BY NOT OFFERING HELP THAT THEY GIVE TO SO MANY WHO HAVE NOT PAID ANY TAXES HERE. I DON'T SIGN THIS PETITION TO ALLOW STATE RUN FARMING THAT I AM SURE SOMEONE HAS THEIR HAND IN FOR A PROFIT. I MEAN THE FARMER THAT USED TO BE. THE ONES WHO SLAVED AND WORKED TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR FAMILIES AND MADE A GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO ALL OF US. GIVE THESE PEOPLE BACK THEIR FARMS AND HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN IN THEIR FAMILIES FOR GENERATIONS. COME UP WITH SOME GOOD HONEST WAYS SO THESE PEOPLE CAN MAKE A LIVING.
# 7,699:
1:09 am PST, Nov 22,
Dawn Grib, Pennsylvania
# 7,698:
8:40 pm PST, Nov 21,
Roxanne Marriott, Nebraska
We need to protect our own!
We need to protect our own!
# 7,697:
7:43 pm PST, Nov 21,
Faith Holloway, Pennsylvania
# 7,696:
4:03 pm PST, Nov 21,
Marilyn Wood, California
What are we going to do for food when we no longer have farmers or ranchers!!!
What are we going to do for food when we no longer have farmers or ranchers!!!
# 7,695:
12:42 pm PST, Nov 21,
Alan Gross, New Jersey
# 7,694:
6:27 am PST, Nov 21,
Nicole Knam, Ohio
# 7,693:
5:16 am PST, Nov 21,
Charmaine Sabri, Pennsylvania
# 7,692:
4:24 am PST, Nov 21,
Sandra Dutcher, Rhode Island
# 7,691:
3:41 am PST, Nov 21,
Laura Sholtz, Maine
# 7,690:
10:35 pm PST, Nov 20,
Lenore Delgado, California
# 7,689:
9:44 pm PST, Nov 20,
Ryan Shields, Arizona
America's Family Farms and Rural Communities should be protected and preserved
America's Family Farms and Rural Communities should be protected and preserved
# 7,688:
9:29 pm PST, Nov 20,
Barrie Stebbings, California
# 7,687:
9:14 pm PST, Nov 20,
Jillyanne Michelle Cape, Missouri
# 7,686:
9:07 pm PST, Nov 20,
Gene Wade, Texas
# 7,685:
1:21 am PST, Nov 20,
Eva Eberhardt-Cohen, California
# 7,684:
10:08 pm PST, Nov 19,
Najala Richards, Georgia
# 7,683:
12:10 pm PST, Nov 19,
Desiree Diaz, Illinois
# 7,682:
10:30 am PST, Nov 19,
Abby Sanderson, South Dakota
# 7,681:
9:35 am PST, Nov 19,
C.C. Schenk, North Carolina
# 7,680:
8:36 am PST, Nov 19,
Karen Sordiff, California
# 7,679:
8:02 am PST, Nov 19,
Cheryl Carder, Texas
# 7,678:
3:08 am PST, Nov 19,
Sara DeRuyter, Wisconsin
# 7,677:
1:44 am PST, Nov 19,
Lisa A, Massachusetts
# 7,676:
7:10 pm PST, Nov 18,
Cory Ferguson, West Virginia
My family has been in the farming and ranching business for many generations. We must preserve the family farm.
My family has been in the farming and ranching business for many generations. We must preserve the family farm.
# 7,675:
1:05 pm PST, Nov 18,
John Chappell, Florida
# 7,674:
5:39 am PST, Nov 18,
Ines Seidel, Germany
# 7,673:
5:23 am PST, Nov 18,
Linda Bonura, Louisiana
# 7,672:
4:51 pm PST, Nov 17,
Charmaine Sabri, Pennsylvania
# 7,671:
4:36 pm PST, Nov 17,
Gentle Deer Lion Tamer, Texas
# 7,670:
1:42 pm PST, Nov 17,
Danielle Norberg, Virginia
# 7,669:
11:42 am PST, Nov 17,
Diane Middleton, Michigan
As a rural retiree trying to make it in the country, I feel it is imperative that America's farms and rural communities be preserved and not sold out to the developers and exploiters
As a rural retiree trying to make it in the country, I feel it is imperative that America's farms and rural communities be preserved and not sold out to the developers and exploiters
# 7,668:
12:56 am PST, Nov 17,
Johnny GILBERT, New Jersey
# 7,667:
2:22 pm PST, Nov 16,
Charles Mclachlan, United Kingdom
# 7,666:
2:15 pm PST, Nov 16,
Rita Mathues, Belgium
# 7,665:
3:46 pm PST, Nov 15,
Lorena Silva, Mexico
# 7,664:
7:58 am PST, Nov 15,
Shannon Saldana, Ohio
# 7,663:
11:00 pm PST, Nov 14,
Mark Foote, Washington
# 7,662:
7:26 pm PST, Nov 14,
J. Hall, New Jersey
# 7,661:
6:02 pm PST, Nov 14,
Sandra Stubbs, Delaware
# 7,660:
1:16 am PST, Nov 14,
Amie Posey, Alabama
# 7,659:
10:11 pm PST, Nov 13,
Steven Heaver, New Jersey
# 7,658:
9:25 am PST, Nov 12,
Ai Mahoney, Pennsylvania
# 7,657:
7:57 am PST, Nov 12,
REGINA WIRTH, Germany
# 7,656:
9:58 pm PST, Nov 11,
Jason Turgeon, Maine
I support family farm and rural community.
I support family farm and rural community.
# 7,655:
10:05 am PST, Nov 9,
Crystal Jack, Florida
# 7,654:
3:57 am PST, Nov 9,
Debi Webb, Ohio
# 7,653:
8:08 pm PST, Nov 8,
Linda Hughes, Florida
# 7,652:
5:14 pm PST, Nov 7,
Thomas Howell, North Carolina
# 7,651:
6:37 am PST, Nov 7,
Jonte White, Maryland