Farm System Reform Act

Family farms are in jeopardy in North Dakota.

We believe that small policy changes will not be enough to fix our broken system and sweeping changes will be necessary to save farmers and ranchers in rural North Dakota. We strongly urge you to take action and support Senator Cory Booker’s Senate Bill 3221 - Farm System Reform Act of 2019.

The Bill does the following:

Changes laws to protect family farmers and ranchers in ND.
Places an immediate moratorium on industrial agricultural including confined animal feeding operations (CAFO)
Gets fair prices for farmers and ranchers
Restores country of origin labeling (COOL)

Family farms are in jeopardy in North Dakota.

We believe that small policy changes will not be enough to fix our broken system and sweeping changes will be necessary to save farmers and ranchers in rural North Dakota. We strongly urge you to take action and support Senator Cory Booker’s Senate Bill 3221 - Farm System Reform Act of 2019.

The Bill does the following:

Changes laws to protect family farmers and ranchers in ND.
Places an immediate moratorium on industrial agricultural including confined animal feeding operations (CAFO)
Gets fair prices for farmers and ranchers
Restores country of origin labeling (COOL)

Farm System Reform Act

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Family farms are in jeopardy in North Dakota.

We believe that small policy changes will not be enough to fix our broken system and sweeping changes will be necessary to save farmers and ranchers in rural North Dakota. We strongly urge you to take action and support Senator Cory Booker’s Senate Bill 3221 - Farm System Reform Act of 2019.

The Bill does the following:

Changes laws to protect family farmers and ranchers in ND.
Places an immediate moratorium on industrial agricultural including confined animal feeding operations (CAFO)
Gets fair prices for farmers and ranchers
Restores country of origin labeling (COOL)

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I represent one of the many North Dakotans that supports reinstating Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) for beef and pork. The U.S.D.A. currently allows beef and pork products that are shipped to the U.S. and processed or repackaged here to be labeled “product of U.S.A.,” even when the animal was raised in another country. This allows multinational meatpackers to pass their imported meat off as American, further eroding fair competition and preventing shoppers from knowing where their food comes from and the option to support local rural communities.

Ranchers need a marketplace that will treat them fairly and we can't trust meatpackers to self regulate.  I am against the vertical integration of meatpacking markets and want the Packers and Stockyards Act to be enforced and strengthened.  I also believe that the agricultural sector needs to be reformed by eliminating large Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and making reforms on how current farms are regulated. Thousands of rural communities across the nation are suffering from polluted water and air produced by farms in many cases owned from out of state or international interests. This bill would responsibly reform the system in a way that would compensate people for their losses in a humane way and provide relief to communities including those in North Dakota.

I believe that small policy changes will not be enough to fix our broken system and sweeping changes will be necessary to save ranchers in rural North Dakota. I strongly urge you to take action and support Senator Cory Booker’s Senate Bill 3221 - Farm System Reform Act of 2019. Here’s why:

Strengthen the Packers and Stockyards Act to protect family farmers and ranchers, including:

-Prohibit the use of unfair tournament or ranking systems for paying contract growers

-Protect livestock and poultry farmers from retaliation

-Create market transparency and protect farmers and ranchers from predatory purchasing practices

-Place an immediate moratorium on new and expanding large CAFOs, and phase out by 2040 the largest CAFOs as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency

-Hold corporate integrators responsible for pollution and other harm caused by CAFOs

-Provide a voluntary buyout for farmers who want to transition out of operating a CAFO

-Restore mandatory country-of-origin labeling requirements for beef and pork and expand to dairy products

-Prohibit the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) from labeling foreign imported meat products as “Product of USA”

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