Tag: FARMERS

The PRIME Act offers Alabama a choice: continue outsourcing food policy to federal standards designed for corporate consolidation, or reclaim authority and rebuild local food systems from the ground up.

Alabama farmers, manufacturers, and energy producers rely on rail to move everything from grain and soy to steel and petrochemicals. If one operator gains outsized control over the routes feeding the Gulf Coast, our producers will be left with no leverage and no alternatives.

Every vote, every co-sponsorship, and every letter has been rooted in one guiding principle – giving Alabama farmers the tools and freedom they need to thrive.

Each ripe fruit represents the humble journey of belief. Of faith. It represents the farmer’s defiant optimism, his long hours of hard work, his months of prayer.

Too many farmers end up paying massive amounts for coverage, forcing them to leave the land they love or take non-farm jobs just to stay afloat. Member-Based Health Plans (MBHP) offer a powerful, member-driven solution that can cut premiums.

A federal judge in Kentucky granted a preliminary injunction halting a Biden administration regulation requiring farmers to allow temporary foreign-migrant workers to engage in collective bargaining. 

Alabama agriculture can’t afford ESG mandates. We need Alabama elected officials at all levels of government to fight back on these ESG proposals.

On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) announced that the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture will issue $383,704,620 in payments to 10,907 eligible Alabama farmers, ranchers and landowners under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Discrimination Financial Assistance Program.

U.S. Rep. Dale Strong (R-Monrovia) on Monday announced his bill, the "Protecting America's Agricultural Land from Foreign Harm Act," has been included in the Republican Study Committee’s "Countering Communist China Act".

There are fewer options to buy locally than when I was growing up. Yet farmers continue to toil and put their blood, sweat, and tears into their farms to provide safer and healthier options for us as Americans. This makes supporting the farmers vitally important.