December 3: Family Farm Groups and Allies Ask Senate to Reject Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA); Failed NAFTA Model to Devastate Farmers Here and Abroad (12.03.07) -Family farm, ranching, consumer and faith groups from across the country released a letter to the U.S. Senate asking that the Senate oppose the Peru Free Trade Agreement. The letter outlines the flaws of the Peru FTA for U.S. and Peruvian farmers and urges that trade policy be based on principles of food sovereignty that emphasizes local, sustainable farm systems instead of the free trade model that pits farmers around the world in a race-to-the-bottom.

November 16: Farm Groups Urge Senate to Reject Expanding Farm Credit System (FCS) Lending Authority. (11.16.07) -In a letter to the Senate, farm groups said FCS had failed to adequately lend to small, mid-size, beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. Congress should step back and examine credit in rural America and address the clear needs of these farmers and ranchers, in particular those that are 34 years of age and younger. As part of that review it is important to examine the role that FCS lending is playing in the overall access to credit for independent diversified family farm operations. Read the letter.

November 8: NFFC Condemns House Vote to Pass Peru Free Trade Agreement (11.08.07) -Despite the failures of NAFTA, the House voted to continue the same failed free trade model for farmers both here and in Peru. NFFC had sent a letter to the House outlining the flaws of the Peru FTA and demanded that trade policy be based on principles of food sovereignty. Click here to read the letter.

October 23: Diverse Groups Urge Senate to Make Strategic Reserves a Priority (10.23.07) - The lack of a strategic grain reserve has become an even more urgent priority in the wake of global media concern on food prices and as USDA is predicting the lowest level of world carryover socks on record since 1947. Click here to read the letter.

September 25: Dairy Farmers Across Country Rally Behind S.1722 Dairy Bill; Family Farm Organizations Call for Cost of Production Formula in Farm Bill (9.25.07) -Dairy producer groups from diverse regions of the country released a letter to the Senate Agriculture Committee expressing the urgent need for a cost of production for dairy farmers to be included in the Farm Bill. While recent higher milk prices have offered some relief to the remaining 60,000 dairy farmers in the United States, the situation for many is still dire due to last year's record low prices and the extreme price volatility that exists in the market.

August 8: Court Dictates USDA Procedures for Roundup Ready Alfalfa (8.07.07) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published in the Federal Register a toll free telephone number that will inform alfalfa producers if Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa had been planted in close proximity to their farms. This toll free number was required by an Amended Judgment issued by U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer in Geertson Seed Farms et.al. vs. Mike Johanns, et.al. This order required that notice be provided to alfalfa farmers who live within the same county or adjacent county to Roundup Ready alfalfa farms.

July 30: Family Farmers Urge Senate to Improve on House Bill (7.30.07) -The National Family Farm Coalition is greatly disappointed by the Farm Bill as passed by the House of Representatives. The House bill is simply a continuation of a failed policy that has left us with fewer family farmers and more consolidation of our food supply into a handful of companies hands.

July 24: Family Farmers Disappointed in Both House Farm Bill and Reform Proposal (7.24.07) - The National Family Farm Coalition believes a middle ground can be found in supporting policies that would reinstate strategic grain reserves to stabilize volatile crop prices, and would reduce controversial government subsidies by replacing the current loan deficiency payment with a price floor that would provide farmers with a safety net in the marketplace.

June 13: Family Farmers Demand Real Subsidy Reform that Gives Farmers a Fair Price (6.13.07) -The National Family Farm Coalition believes the new database by the Environmental Working Group misses the mark in its critique and analysis of the current broken farm subsidy system.

May 8: Finding the Weak Link in the Food Chain-Outsourcing Food Security is Not Working (5.8.07) -The National Family Farm Coalition urges our elected representatives at tomorrow's House Agriculture Committee Hearing on recent food safety emergencies to address the state of our food supply as a critical national security issue through the lens of Food Sovereignty, the right of every society to regulate it's food supply and not become dependent on food sources from unknown points on the globe.

February 28: Implement COOL (02.28.07). The National Family Farm Coalition, along with more than 200 organizations representing a broad cross-section of groups including consumers, urged members of Congress to support mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL).

February 20: U.S. Farmers Link with Farmers Around the World on Farm Policy (02.20.07). The National Family Farm Coalition joined 60 organizations to launch a new food sovereignty platform for the farm bill: Building Sustainable Futures Globally.

February 14: Federal Court Finds USDA Erred in Approving GE Alfalfa Without Full Environmental Review (2.14.07). A Federal Court has ruled, for the first time ever, that the U.S. Department of Agriculture failed to abide by federal environmental laws when it approved a genetically engineered crop without conducting a full Environment Impact Statement (EIS).

January 18: Over Two Hundred Organizations Urge Congress to Ensure a Fair Marketplace for the Nation's Farmers, Ranchers and Consumers; Include a Comprehensive Competition Title in the 2007 Farm Bill (1.18.07). Over two hundred organizations urged Congress to ensure a fair marketplace for the nation's farmers, ranchers and consumers in a letter delivered to the Chairs and members of the congressional House and Senate Agriculture and Judiciary Committees.