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Ask Rob Larew, President of the National Farmers Union, and he’ll tell you farmers face a variety of challenges on a good day. From weather, to trade, to politics, there are issues today’s farmers needs to face head on and overcome. Add on to ...

According to National Farmers Union’s most recent “The Farmer’s Share”, for every dollar Americans spend on their Thanksgiving dinner this year, farmers and ranchers will earn approximately 11.9 cents. That marks a slight year-over-year decline, when farmers made roughly 12.15 cents of the Thanksgiving food ...

Over the weekend, the Associated Press and several other national news outlets officially projected Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 Presidential Election. That announcement came after the Pennsylvania electoral votes were put in the former Vice President’s column, pushing him over the needed 270 to win. M ...

The National Farmers Union calls the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement this week “Shameful.” The United States formally exited the Paris Climate Agreement Wednesday, three-and-a-half years after President Trump pledged to do so. NFU said ...

The USDA has proposed a rule that supporters say would strengthen the Agricultural Marketing Service’s oversite of Organic products and what can be included in the National Organic Program. Rob Larew, President of the National Farmers Union said over the last several years, millions of dollars of non-organic products have been intentionally mislabeled in the NOP and sold as organic. Thi ... Read

Food supply chain disruptions and how to reduce them in future as well as disease outbreaks were front-and-center recently at the House Small Business Committee. One of the farm leaders with suggestions was National Farmers Union chief Rob Larew ...

The House of Representatives passed a $2.2 trillion coronavirus aid package that Democrats say is an update to the previous $3.4 billion bill that passed in May. The vote was 214 to 207, with 18 Democrats joining all the Republicans who voted against it ...

In mid-September, the National Farmers Union announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the organization Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences, MANRRS. The goal of the MOU, according to NFU President Rob Larew is to strengthen diversity and inclusion in the Ag industry ...

The National Farmers Union is hosting their annual fall legislative fly-in this week, but thanks to the pandemic, the event has moved on-line. NFU President Rob Larew said farmers are facing a long list of challenges in 2020. “Between low commodity prices, corporate control of the food industry, chronic overproduction, global trade disputes, underfunded infrastructure, and inadequate access to br

The coronavirus pandemic continues to create challenges for and in some situations, overwhelm the rural community. As lawmakers in Washington D.C. debate what another round of COVID-19 assistance may look like, the National Farmers Union is asking that more than the bottom line be considered ...