Booker, colleagues introduce the honorary farmers’ contracts

Booker, colleagues present Honorary farmers’ contract law

Washington, DC – Today the US Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced Honorary farmers’ contract lawLaws on illegal consideration for all contracts and agreements that were previously concluded by the US Department (USDA). President Trump’s USDA has refused to make reimbursement payments to fulfill signed contracts without determining when or whether the farmers are paid for and owed the money they are put on. Farmers and the organizations they serve work on narrow edges and cannot wait weeks and months without being rightly planned and which they rightly planned and must continue to work. This legislation would require the USDA to pay farmers in previous payments as soon as possible to prevent them from completing their business. The US representative Gabe Vasquez (D-NM-02) will introduce the legislation of the accompanying law in the house.

If the farmers successfully apply for USDA programs and then issue their own dollars for signed contracts with the agency, they rightly expect to receive reimbursement. Similarly, corporate organizations that farmers connect to the local markets and implement practices that make them more productive and less resource -intensive are immediately exposed to upcoming financing crises because they are not refunded for completed or contracted work. If the whole thing is not made quickly, these organizations will be forced to make agonizing decisions in order to dismiss the staff and no longer help farmers and to destroy years of progress in the further development of local food systems.

“The farmers across the country have been in the floating agreements and contracts in the floating since freezing the USDA. said Senator Booker. “Usda’s refusal to pay the farmers and the organizations who support them is theft, simple and simple. It is a critical season for farmers and cattle breeders. You should do what you love, what you love – – Our communities feed and do not worry about unpaid contracts. This legislation will determine this by forced to keep their end of the deal. “

“In the past two months, farmers, cattle breeders and rural communities have been left in the hover and waited for the USDA to comply with their promises” to honor their promises. ” said Vasquez representative. “The Honorary Farm Contract Act is to restore trust and to keep our word to the hardworking people who feed America. If farmers sign contracts, they expect the government to be so simple. This law will immediately release critical funds, ensure that farmers are paid for their work. – Because if they thrive, we all.”

“Regardless of the size of the farm, the grown harvests or the geographical location to interrupt or terminate the peasant contracts, undermining the economic, military and nutritional security and the entire efforts of the community to support the general well-being of the Americans, undermines the economic, military and nutritional certainty of our country.” Devin Cornia, Managing Director of Northeast Organic Farming Association from New Jersey. “We thank Senator Booker and his team for their efforts to resume fundamental investments in the future of our country.”

“We thank Senator Booker and the Vasquez congress member for their leadership in order to force secretaries to honor Rollins. said Joe Maxwell, President of the Farm Action Fund. “If the farmers give their hand, it is a deal. We are no less expected from our government or the Trump administration.”

“In the Hotline of Farm AID, we hear from farmers and farmers who have frozen and cancel federal financing, and we know that these are only a few of the thousands from all over the country.” said Hannah Tremblay, politics and advocacy manager from Farm Aid. “Keinging back payments by USDA, which are due to signed, rightful contracts in our food system-and it could not come at a lesser point in time. Since farmers are planning their vegetation period, uncertainty is one of the most dangerous elements with which they have to deal with. This illegal freezing now!

“In the past few months, countless farmers and the organizations based in the municipality have aroused their livelihood because USDA has considered whether they honor his own legal contracts or not, or not”, or not. ” said Mike Lavender, NSAC Policy Director. “The honorary farmer clearly represents a principle for the basic rock – USDA must quickly honor a word for its own word and his legal obligations towards farmers and organizations by immediately publishing funds for all signed contracts. The national sustainable agricultural coalition thanks to Senator Booker and all members who stood next to farmers, and the nationally sustainable agriculture and all members, next to farmers stood to ask the USDA. “

“The proposed legislation by Senator Booker, said Michael Kovach, President, Pennsylvania Farmer’s Union. “It is unfortunate that it was necessary from some well -intentioned but poorly designed actions that have effectively broken these promises. As few, so many feed so many, American farmers need more support, nothing less.”

The Honorary farmers’ contract law would:

• Demand that USDA vent all signed agreements and contracts;
• Require that USDA makes all past due payments as soon as possible.
• The USDA prohibits to terminate agreements or contracts with farmers or organizations who provide support for farmers, unless the conditions of the agreement or the contract do not comply.
• USDA prohibits the Farm Service Agency Office, a field service office for Natural Resources Conservation Service or a rural development service center, without giving an announcement and justification in congress.

To see the full list of organizations that support them Honors of peasant contactsClick here.

The Honors of peasant contacts Is by the US senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), Adam Schiff (D-Ca), Chris van Hollen (D-Md), Ron Wyden (D-Or), Martin Heinrich (D-MM), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Angus (I.-Mein), Tina Smith (D-NNY), ​​Angus (I.-my), Tina Smith (D-NY), Angus (I-Meine), Tina Smith (D-NY), Angus (I-Meine), Tina Smith (D-NY), Angus (i-Meine), Tina Smith (D-NY), Osponsor. Dick Durbin (D-ILL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wi), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Ri) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

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