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Action Needed! Support
a farm policy that helps family farmers, rural communities, and
the environment.
What’s
wrong with current federal farm policy?
The current farm bill leads to low farm
prices and the need for billions of dollars in federal payments
to prevent a total collapse of the farm economy. It also encourages
aggressive fencerow-to-fencerow farming.
The promise of cheap corn and soybean meal
has encouraged the expansion of factory-type, confinement livestock
production, which contaminates ground and surface water and threatens
independent family farmers who use more sound environmental practices
and crop rotations.
Low farm prices have not resulted in low
food prices, but instead, higher profit margins for a handful of
multinational food processors and exporters;
Iowa CCI members are calling on the U.S.
Congress and the President to take an international leadership role
in establishing a sustainable family farm policy, that:
- raises commodity loan rates (non-recourse)
to true cost of production and ensures that farm income comes
from the marketplace and not from taxpayers;
- enacts short-term conservation measures
to avoid overproduction;
- establishes land stewardship grants for
conservation measures and support of young people to enter the
farming business; and
- creates a farmer-owned grain reserve
to ensure food security in times of scarcity and price stability
in times of plenty.
You can help
support this policy by calling or writing Iowa's U.S. Senators and
Congressional representatives. Tell them to replace our current
farm bill with a policy based on these four points. Their names,
addresses, and phone & fax numbers are:
Senator
Tom Harkin
531 Hart Senate Bldg.
Washington D.C. 20510
Phone: 202/224-3254
Fax: 202/224-9369
Contact
form
Senator
Charles Grassley
135 Hart Senate Bldg.
Washington D.C. 20510
Phone: 202/224-3744
Fax: 202/224-6062
Contact
form
Rep. Bruce
Braley
1408 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2911
Contact
form
Rep. Leonard
Boswell
1029 Longworth Bldg.
Washington D.C. 20515
Phone: 202/225-3806
Fax:202/225-5608
Contact
form
Rep. Dave
Loebsack
1513 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: 202.225.6576
Fax: 202.226.0757
Contact
form
Rep. Steve
King
1432 Longworth Bldg.
Washington D.C. 20515
Phone: 202/225-4426
Fax: 202/225-3193
Contact
form
Rep. Tom
Latham
516 Cannon Bldg.
Washington D.C. 20515
Phone: 202/225-5476
Fax: 202/225-3301
tom.latham@mail.house.gov |
