The Farmstand: RAFI’s Blog

Farm Aid's 2022 message was loud and clear: farmers are increasingly facing the effects of climate change, leading to extreme weather events like droughts, hurricanes, temperature changes, flooding, and more. And furthermore, we’re running out of time; we need to fix our corporate-controlled food system in the U.S. now!

RAFI-USA welcomes the climate investments in the Inflation Reduction Act. We are hopeful that the act’s debt provisions will save farms for those who are currently at risk of losing them, and we regret its repeal of race/ethnicity-specific debt relief.

We're looking for farmers to share stories of discrimination experienced in commercial financial institutions by August 26.

This month we share the pets of RAFI-USA staff members celebrating the "Dog Days of Summer."

At the end of May 2022, the USDA released a report in response to the Biden Administration's executive order on promoting competition in the U.S. economy. This blog shares key elements of the USDA report.