Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) recently conducted a survey of its members to learn how COVID-19 has affected their farm businesses and to learn what more the organization can do to serve its members. Here is what we learned and what we are planning at the FTCLDF…
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PRIME Act Would Address Meat Access Woes
A recent survey among Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) members indicates that members’ top concerns include the unavailability of meat processors and regulations that interfere with the ability of farmers and ranchers to deliver farm products directly to the consumer. The Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act would repeal the ban on the intrastate sale of…
Small Farms Can Help Address Food Waste
The stunning food waste that is one of many unexpected consequences of COVID-19 has made us all painfully aware of how highly vulnerable industrial farms are to sudden fluctuations in demand and pullbacks on the regular flow of commerce…
Act Now for the PRIME Act and Increase Access to Local Meat
The country is beginning to experience the drastic impact of the ongoing consolidation of the meat processing industry causing instability in our food supply, and specifically in our meat supply. There is a very simple solution, and that is to enable increased direct-to-consumer sales of meat via the PRIME Act…
Things I Wish I Knew Before Beginning to Farm
Over the last few months, we have collected responses from our members and supporters about aspects of farming that they wish they would have known about before they began their journey.