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Take Action to Support Conservation Programs for Farmers
Target: U.S. SenateSponsored by: Environmental Defense
America's farmers, ranchers and forest landowners provide an invaluable service to our country.
They not only produce food and fiber, but they help keep our water clean, our air clean, and our habitats for wildlife safe. The environmental challenges that we are facing cannot be solved unless we reward these landowners who enroll in USDA's voluntary conservation programs.
About 50,000 farmers are rejected every year from these programs due to lack of funds. We need to add $6 billion in new funding to the Farm Bill to help farmers participate in programs that promote conservation.
Tell your Senators to support conservation priorities and make farmland stewardship the centerpiece of the 2007 Farm Bill!
They not only produce food and fiber, but they help keep our water clean, our air clean, and our habitats for wildlife safe. The environmental challenges that we are facing cannot be solved unless we reward these landowners who enroll in USDA's voluntary conservation programs.
About 50,000 farmers are rejected every year from these programs due to lack of funds. We need to add $6 billion in new funding to the Farm Bill to help farmers participate in programs that promote conservation.
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# 100:
2:54 pm PDT, Oct 19,
Emiliano Galluccio, Italy
# 99:
2:10 pm PDT, Oct 19,
Emily Whetsel, Tennessee
Farmers want to help the earth. They want to restore what they and others have damaged. They want to protect the wildlife that often finds a refuge on their private property. They want to work with the earth, to make a living and also to support life, whether it's wildlife or neighbors who would be hurt by erosion downstream. They really do care. But their efforts to protect the land, their greatest resource, is often thwarted by insufficient funding to conservation programs. They get turned away when they ask for funding to help them do what they can't afford to do on their own. These are family farms, small businesses, entrepreneurs. This isn't agribusiness asking for even more handouts they don't need. It's the local farms that care about the environment, and they're being pushed aside in favor of agribusiness and kept from the conservation they'd love to do. Conservation programs help small farms give back even more than they already do. It lets them do something important to us all.
Farmers want to help the earth. They want to restore what they and others have damaged. They want to protect the wildlife that often finds a refuge on their private property. They want to work with the earth, to make a living and also to support life, whether it's wildlife or neighbors who would be hurt by erosion downstream. They really do care. But their efforts to protect the land, their greatest resource, is often thwarted by insufficient funding to conservation programs. They get turned away when they ask for funding to help them do what they can't afford to do on their own. These are family farms, small businesses, entrepreneurs. This isn't agribusiness asking for even more handouts they don't need. It's the local farms that care about the environment, and they're being pushed aside in favor of agribusiness and kept from the conservation they'd love to do. Conservation programs help small farms give back even more than they already do. It lets them do something important to us all.
# 98:
12:32 pm PDT, Oct 19,
Alex Won, California
# 97:
11:26 am PDT, Oct 19,
Name not displayed, Washington
# 96:
10:45 am PDT, Oct 19,
Name not displayed, Oregon
# 95:
10:39 am PDT, Oct 19,
Spencer Hamilton, Michigan
# 94:
9:31 am PDT, Oct 19,
Hector Navarro, California
# 93:
8:52 am PDT, Oct 19,
Nellie Workman, West Virginia
# 92:
8:44 am PDT, Oct 19,
Milca Van den steene, France
# 91:
7:32 am PDT, Oct 19,
Sandra Zwart, Netherlands
# 90:
7:13 am PDT, Oct 19,
Olaya Garcia, Spain
# 89:
7:12 am PDT, Oct 19,
Cricket Adams, South Carolina
# 88:
6:46 am PDT, Oct 19,
Dominica Stolarcyk, South Carolina
Supply and Demand- We demand that you supply the caregivers and growers of this country the funds to keep producing.
Supply and Demand- We demand that you supply the caregivers and growers of this country the funds to keep producing.
# 87:
6:15 am PDT, Oct 19,
Holly Swint, Florida
# 86:
6:15 am PDT, Oct 19,
Brian Cave, Georgia
# 84:
4:26 am PDT, Oct 19,
Donna Lecuyer, New Hampshire
# 83:
4:16 am PDT, Oct 19,
Anand Parikh, Virginia
# 82:
1:52 am PDT, Oct 19,
Juliana Farah, Lebanon
# 81:
9:59 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Bess Katerinsky, New York
# 80:
9:49 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Vivian Lee, Malaysia
# 79:
8:44 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Toni Nesbitt-Hanson, Texas
# 78:
8:31 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Richard Hollister, Arizona
# 77:
7:54 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Aiz T, Canada
# 76:
7:53 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Gerry Carter, Texas
# 75:
7:35 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Carla Meyer, Illinois
The farmer be it SMALL or LARGE are the first line of defense in regard to conservation. There is a saying, "If you take care of the Land, the Land will take care of you." This saying is about farmers as well as anyone that takes care of the land. They respect the land, they honor the land, and the land in turn respects and honors those who care for it. So please, please support the farmers, especially the small ones and keep the Earth safe for our kids.
The farmer be it SMALL or LARGE are the first line of defense in regard to conservation. There is a saying, "If you take care of the Land, the Land will take care of you." This saying is about farmers as well as anyone that takes care of the land. They respect the land, they honor the land, and the land in turn respects and honors those who care for it. So please, please support the farmers, especially the small ones and keep the Earth safe for our kids.
# 74:
7:26 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Name not displayed, California
# 73:
7:20 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Katherine Schwirzinski, Ohio
# 72:
7:19 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Chris Shaw, South Carolina
# 71:
6:19 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Barbara McLendon, Georgia
# 70:
6:12 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Reverend Stan Wood, Missouri
Small farmers are endangered. Small farmers should be the first to receive any government funds. Small farmers need to be supported and if needed, subsidized by our government. We would not be the only country to subsidize small family farms.
Small farmers are endangered. Small farmers should be the first to receive any government funds. Small farmers need to be supported and if needed, subsidized by our government. We would not be the only country to subsidize small family farms.
# 69:
6:06 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Sharon Dickenson, Kentucky
# 68:
4:29 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Casey Marshall, Alabama
# 67:
4:13 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Karen V. Stefanini, Massachusetts
# 66:
3:57 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Seth Stern, New Jersey
# 65:
3:53 pm PDT, Oct 18,
David Dunkleberger, Pennsylvania
# 64:
3:40 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Jamie Richards, Massachusetts
# 63:
3:38 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Gentle Deer Lion Tamer, Texas
# 62:
2:28 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Sofia Santos, Portugal
# 61:
2:19 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Erika Stone, Virginia
# 60:
12:57 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Soledad Posac, Argentina
# 59:
12:40 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Crystal Jack, Florida
# 58:
12:02 pm PDT, Oct 18,
Amy Schumacher, Ohio
# 57:
11:54 am PDT, Oct 18,
Bobbi Jo Dubelaar, Netherlands
# 56:
11:48 am PDT, Oct 18,
Vidya Sims, California
# 55:
11:46 am PDT, Oct 18,
Christoph Poss, Germany
# 54:
11:42 am PDT, Oct 18,
Marcin Sztwiertnia, Poland
# 53:
11:37 am PDT, Oct 18,
Cacia Morales, Guatemala
# 52:
11:06 am PDT, Oct 18,
Nicole Hardin, Alabama
# 51:
9:37 am PDT, Oct 18,
Gino Foti, Massachusetts