Senate Agriculture Committee Passes Farm Bill with Additional Wins for Young Farmers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kate Bittman | View full release and contacts Senate Agriculture Committee Passes Farm Bill with Additional Wins for Young Farmers NYFC celebrates adoption of beginning farmer and land access amendments as Farm Bill heads for Senate floor WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 13, 2018) – The National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC) celebrated additional […]
September News: Climate Justice, Food Safety News, and Land Access Training

It’s officially fall — we hope you’re catching your breath in the fields and watching the new season edge its way in. The FDA just released a new draft of Food Safety rules and significant improvements were made. The agency certainly listened, but we’ll need your help to ensure that the final rules work for […]
New film highlights Importance of land preservation for the next generation

We wrote a few weeks ago about NYFC’s report on how current farmland conservation practices are failing working farmers. The report was based on a survey of over 200 land trusts on how they work with beginning farmers. What we saw was land going fallow as non-farmers push prices up to astronomical levels and farmers […]