Wanted: Food and Agriculture nominees who will restore our nation’s food independence, security, safety and affordability. We are seeking those who will prioritize the health of our soil and our citizens as the foundation of our economic prosperity and resilience. These leaders will help revive family farms, support local, sustainable and regenerative agriculture, empower local producers and processors, and align with the rest of the Vision below. New submissions are currently paused.
Farmers make America great! Under the last Administration, the USA became a net importer of food, endangering our security, our economy, our health, and the livelihoods of millions of farming communities across our country. Big Ag and the chemical companies have put thousands of family farms out of business and poisoned our precious soil and food, driving chronic disease and healthcare costs through the roof.
President Trump will slash regulation, redirect broken subsidies, support organic and regenerative farming practices, empower local producers and processors, and end reliance on the most toxic pesticides that are making us the sickest country on Earth. As a result, over the coming four years, his Administration will bring down grocery prices, remove agricultural toxins, heal American soil, revive family farming, and restore our nation’s food independence.
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Will there be any opportunities for folks to work/help in agricultural issues in their own state? I’m glad to contribute to that effort, but don’t want to go to Washington to do so. I believe I can add value to the work and conversation on this issue, but not willing to relocate to do that. Is there a place for someone like me?
I believe American agriculture can be great again simply by removing the government oversight.
America can do without Monsanto and other corporations American farmers can do without deadly pesticides and chemicals that destroy the soil.
I would love to see incentives for each American to have a victory garden or to share their victory garden. I would love to see incentives for Craft products that could come as by products from agriculture. I would love to see America delve deeper into flax and other vegetation that could become fabrics.
Further, legalization of cannabis as hemp and cannabis as a recreational sfundinge would greatly benefit our country. Case in point Trinidad Colorado a town of 1800 people, earned the state of Colorado a quarter of a billion dollars in one year from recreational Cannabis sales. Can you imagine the boomtown that would happen once cannabis is legalized across the board. My view is cannabis should be regulated like tomato plants. Remove all regulation that stifles production and funding.
90% of all pharmaceutical drugs would become obsolete with cannabis legalized for medicinal and recreational purposes.
America will become great again quickly once we get our food supply squared away.
RFK Jr. was recently asked how people are supposed to be able to afford farm-fresh, organic, whole foods. Shopping at farm stands and participating in Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) is desired by many, yet not affordable for most lower-and-even-middle-income individuals and families. While working from the top-down to get pesticides out of our food supply… along with educating the public about how toxic, processed foods become addictive and lead to chronic disease… here are some ways to support this shift:
Overhaul the SNAP program and award qualifying individuals and families an amount that can actually get them through the month.
Streamline the process for farm stands, farm stores & farmers markets to accept SNAP.
Keep an up-to-date, nation-wide list/database of farm stands, farm stores & farmers markets that accept SNAP & any details necessary for the farmer and customer to have the smoothest experience possible with utilizing the program.
Continue to expand the SNAP Double Up Food Bucks program. (https://doubleupamerica.org/)
Incentivise small farms to participate in programs like Farm Share (Farm Share - CT NOFA) that support lower income individuals and families in gaining access to CSAs for a more affordable price- while the farm still gets paid the full price for each share.
Support farms that participate in programs like Farm Share in more easily raising their portion of the CSA funds.
Let’s get communities eating local… and small farms thriving, again! #MAHA
Thank you for your comment! And what if part of the FREE TRAINING to garden …what if ELECTROCULTURE was included? ELECTROCULTURE is the use of natural magnetism and electricity to grow large crops quickly! Look up ELECTROCULTURE from the turn of the 20th century!
KMRA, I kinda like city life. I was actually sitting on my cousins porch in Compton earlier this week enjoying some legal herb and discussing what it would be like to have LA city mandate fruit bearing trees. They could plant them in the govt owned strips between the sidewalk and the street. Whatever trees bear fruit in LA: apples, plums, avocados, lemons, oranges etc., there for feeding anyone that wanted it. Our President said he was going to flood LA with water once the smelt were left to their own business anyway.
But, soon after the second bowl we realized that some problems might arise. What if folks from Crenshaw came over to Central to nab and grab a bunch to sell?
With a spark of a bic, and further contemplation we figured the planting would have to be on a large scale. Plenty o’ plenty. They would have their own on their side of the tracks. And If someone was needy enough from another city to come to get them, we should let them be. Poor things.
Supply and demand would dictate a low price anyway, making the steal kinda not worth it. And who wants a bunch of fruit in the street. Actually trees make so many leftovers we would have to be careful how much we planted anyway.
We finished off the conversation discussing how plants were awesome little factories, the only manufacturing by-products being oxygen and water.
We need to cut subsidies for corn soy and wheat to truly impact change. Allowing those crops to have the true cost associated forcibly changes the big food companies putting that pesticide laden gmo garbage into the food system directly. The dollar is ultimately the only thing which will impact behavior in that ecosystem. Redirect those funds to either pay down our debt and/or subsidize smaller operations in crops as you mentioned like hemp, flax, ideally organic programs across the board. Regenerative operations and even wild food foragers too. Support the people producing the best of the best not the worst of the worst. The big farmers will end up following that cash just like they did to corn soy and wheat in the first place. Food ingredients get cleaner, soil and water get cleaner, smaller farms already doing the right things get a boost and grow and it keeps “feeding” itself.
I wonder how fruit bearing trees could work. You made valid point about the excess, I truly didn’t think about. Another issue may be people picking fruit before it’s ripe. What if the trees were in a community garden? What about community gardens? Would have love to have been there for your sesh! Thanks for including me in the conversation!
My Name is Bill Norton I am the Director of Sustainaculture Farm, we are a non-stock not-for-profit membership organization in Lynchburg, VA. Our mission is to restore local communities, rescue and restore local farms. We meet with aging family farmers with farms of all sizes all around the country and most of them want to have their farms continue to be farms in perpetuity. Many have children and grandchildren who don’t want to be farmers, they want to sell the farm however, the majority of buyers are wanting to develop the land into subdivisions or other commercial types of developments. We have also seen a number of big commercial farm entities and foreign buyers that will bid very high and drive the price up making it hard for other farmers and ranchers to expand. We have come up with a solution for capitalizing farms with out banks, with out mortgages, with out payments and no interest ever.
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Agree that rational, decentralized and chemical free alternatives to farming need to be pursued.
I propose not so much a complete lack of regulation, but to examine the evidence and require evidence for regulation. One key criteria is that conflicts of interest should be disclosed, especially for large corporate funded studies that show chemical solutions to ag need to be used. Along the same lines, an independent audit should be conducted to determine who benefits from regulation and how.
There are efforts underway to undermine backyard gardening, including calling it a cause of heart attacks and strokes. While nothing is without risk, it appears that this is an effort to both bolster the climate change narrative and the need for centralized, corporate, regulated food production.
Your proposal for small, independent producers, including victory gardens for personal and community use is a big step in the right direction. Employers could offer programs to their employees to off set healthcare costs for eating better food by offering reimbursement for setting up gardens etc.
Soil health is also critical, and creating either incentives or at least a lack of barriers for anyone improving healthy mychorhizal and microbiota in the soil, no till methods, etc will improve better food and a better more sustainable environment.
The current regs are geared towards synthetic production of food and other by-products, which arguably there may be a place for, but allow the alternative path for the growing number of people who want a different option.
YES!!THIS!! SOIL IS EVERYTHING!
Agri-Buiness by mega corporations are where the problems come in .
Waste treatment, urine runoff poor and inhumane animal treatment, mega farms produce too much toxicity at one time for an ecosystem to handle.
Small food producers utilize cleaner methods even field cleaning is cleaner than automated butchering.
The USDA currently has one chicken inspector of every 150 chickens. I understand many of the chicken Inspector’s are Chinese which is a questionable hire to begin with.
Promote and shop local food producers.
I’d love to see the Amish expand their food production business into a supermarket chain!
There are so many issues that need attention but a few priorities that I feel need to be addressed first are listed below.
Funding for implementation of TeamKennedy vision items could come from reducing the overall size and staff of USDA and by moving research works to public universities and other institutions. Cost savings from USDA process improvement initiatives can be used to fund “time and topic” bounded research grants for SPECIFIC items listed in the TeamKennedy vision.
“Organic” farming designation should be limited to farms that do not apply ANY manmade chemicals; today, approximately 20 chemicals are allowed to be used on organic fields. There are organic farmers that do NOT use any manmade chemicals and are thriving financially. Best practices can be shared to teach others to successfully farm without chemicals.
Solve the big Ag “dead” soil problem - we need “Living Soil” that is hospitable enough for earthworms to survive! This will take a monumental effort so work/research/advocacy needs to start immediately.
Recent Biden admin changes that supercede states rights and state regs on ag standards need to be overturned.
Amish farmers being targeted by state police per federal agency rules. Small growers in PA aren’t beholden to same level of regs and registration/licensing requirements, but USDA/FDA require ALL producers to follow. Let it go back to the states.
