The family farm is the backbone of a free America. Without it we will have nothing but Monsanto style processed chemical filled foods.
I hope Donald Trump is listening, because we need to overhaul the Department of Agriculture to favor the family owned farm.
The only land that should be legally recognized as farm land is land owned by a family and used for agricultural purposes.
For a corporation to purchase or operate farmland, that corporation should be wholly family owned.
Inheritance taxes should not apply to family owned farms.
Farm subsidies should only be available to family owned farms.
Family farms should be allowed to sell their products directly to the end user either at the farm or at a farmers market.
Family farm owned co ops should be encouraged with special tax considerations.
Family farm owned coops should have a voice, at the federal level, in decisions about the issuing of green cards to migrant workers. It needs to be easy for them to import the temporary workers that they need and to see to it that these workers are safely returned home at the end of their employment.