| this just in |
| 05/21/2008 |
| Farm Bill Subsidy Reform: 20% Reduction in Direct Payments, 30% Reduction in Loan Rates? |
| AFT's Ralph Grossi and Ron Litterer from the National Corn Growers Association take a careful look at the benefits of the new Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program and how it provides a better safety net for farmers. Recent criticism of the program overlooks the realities of the savings its market-oriented approach will provide. |
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| 04/2/2008 |
| Farmcast: Smart Growth Meets Smart Food Tour |
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 Join us as we follow the trail of local food through urban-edge farmland in rural Virginia to restaurants and customers in the Washington DC-metro area, during a tour from the 2008 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference.
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| 02/25/2008 |
| Farmcast: What Do Farmers Want Out of the Farm Bill? |
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 Varel Bailey IA, Ernie Avertt NC, and Jim Andrews IA talk about their recent trips to Washington, DC to speak with lawmakers. Each of them left their farms behind to tell Congress what they were looking for from the new Farm Bill.
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| 01/03/07 |
| AFT Farmcast: Staff Resolutions for the New Year |
 Making the same resolutions as last year? Watch some AFT staff resolutions for 2008 and resolve to turn over a new leaf yourself this year—like trying a new variety of fresh leafy greens from your own garden or a local grower.
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| 11/06/07 |
| AFT Farmcast Video: Kids Learn to Farm and Get Healthy |
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 In the Edible Schoolyard program at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley, California, students learn how to grow, harvest and prepare nutritious seasonal produce. Watch the Edible Schoolyard’s Kelsey Siegel as he talks about the importance of teaching children about their food, where it comes from and how to be good stewards of the land.
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| 10/29/07 |
| Special Video: AFT Responds to Senate Farm Bill |
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 AFT has worked hard over the last few years to make commodity subsidy reform, conservation programs and healthy, local food a priority in the 2007 Farm Bill. Hear what AFT President Ralph Grossi thinks about the Senate’s Farm Bill and what he sees in the future for the 2007 Farm Bill.
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| 10/18/07 |
| AFT Farmcast Video: "Cooking Up Local " |
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 Watch AFT’s Farmcast Video and listen to what it means to cook with locally grown, organic ingredients for Airlie’s Executive Chef Jeff Whitte.
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| 10/16/07 |
| Iowa Producer Jim Andrew Commits to Conservation |
| Thousands of people are expected to participate in a “Commit to Conservation" call-in on Wednesday, October 17, said Ralph Grossi, President of AFT. “I would hope we would be so successful that we would lock up the Senate switchboard with calls asking for an increase in conservation funding,” says Jim Andrew, who will join Grossi in calling his Senators. |
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| 10/4/07 |
| AFT Farmcast Video: Local Food Fever |
 Watch our special Farmcast video interview with Pablo Elliot, Director of the Local Food Project at the Airlie Center in Virginia. This organic culinary garden was created to demonstrate the benefits of supporting local food systems. |
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| 9/27/07 |
| AFT’s Dennis Nuxoll Discusses Competing Priorities on Hill Tube |
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 Dennis Nuxoll, AFT’s Director of Government Relations, was featured on TheHill.com’s Hill Tube, an online video Web site for politicos similar to the very popular YouTube. Nuxoll discussed the competing priorities as the heat of the farm bill debates continues to rise.
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| 9/6/2007 |
| You Are What You Eat: Getting Local |
| The farm bill has under-funded most programs that make it easier for Americans to eat fresh, local and healthy food. AFT found out what “regular folks on the street” really know about the food we eat, where we get it and the farm bill. [MPEG, 1.37MB,3:00] |
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| 8/16/2007 |
| Farming is an Often Unpredictable Industry: Farmer Bill Flory Says a Stable Safety Net is Needed |
| It's not unusual for producers in one area of the country to have a different outcome at harvest than producers in another area of the country. For that matter, it's not unusual for producers in the same area of the country to have different harvest experiences. But in the Northwest this year, diversified wheat producer Bill Flory says the variability is really staggering. [MP3, 2.97MB, 3:15] |
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| 8/14/2007 |
| Producers Need a Safety Net They Can Count On, Durbin-Brown Bill Delivers |
| Nebraska corn grower Bob Dickey supports the new farm bill legislation introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), saying that the Farm Safety Net Improvement Act will provide a better income safety net for farmers, with no additional cost to taxpayers. [MP3, 1.80 MB, 1:57] |
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| 8/10/2007 |
| The Existing Farm Safety New Doesn't Work; Here's a New Idea That Does |
| Leon Corzine, a former National Corn Growers Association president and corn grower from Assumption, IL discusses why
corn growers and American Farmland Trust are joining together in support of a new idea introduced in the Senate that will keep U.S. farm policy current—and looking to the future.[MP3, 3MB, 3:26]
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| 7/31/2007 |
| Looking Forward to Farm and Food Policies for All of America |
| AFT president Ralph Grossi is interviewed by Brownfield Network about changes he feels should be basic to farm legislation.“Let’s look forward to the policies that serve all of agriculture in the 21st Century and find a way to transition from the old programs to programs that really do serve all of agriculture,” says Grossi. |
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| aft's farmcast |
| 6/13/2007 |
| Farmcast: "Keeping it Brief: Conservation, Local Food & Ending Hunger" |
| The stage has been set for the 2007 Farm Bill, and it’s time to turn priorities into programs—protecting working farms and ranches from sprawl, making local foods more available, encouraging healthy diets and ending hunger in America. Listen to Ralph Grossi and representatives from anti-hunger, nutrition and local food groups talk about the 2007 Farm Bill. |
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| 5/30/2007 |
| Farmcast: "Congress Is Talking About Your Food—And Setting Priorities" |
Think farm policy will never change? Think again. The comprehensive Farm, Nutrition, Community Investment Act promises to strengthen U.S. agriculture and ensure fresh, healthy food supplies while better protecting our environment.
Listen to Ralph Grossi, AFT's president, and Congressman Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) as they discuss the priorities this bill lays out for the 2007 Farm Bill.
A podcast available also through iTunes.
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| 04/26/2007 |
| Farmcast: "Calling on Congress To Fund Conservation" |
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AFT President Ralph Grossi and others—including representatives from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the National Corn Growers Association and Pheasants Forever—who appeared before Congress to speak about the importance of funding conservation programs in the upcoming 2007 Farm Bill (debut episode of AFT's Farmcast). A podcast available also through iTunes. [MP3,i2.1 MB, 4:35]
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| FARM POLICY |
| 04/19/2007 |
| An
Important Time for Congress to "Step-Up for Conservation" |
| AFT
President Ralph Grossi says it's a critical
time to increase support for conservation
programs in the 2007 Farm Bill. [MP3, 3 MB,
3:18] |
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| 2/12/2007 |
| Ralph Grossi on U. S. Farm Policy and Farmland Conservation |
| NPR's Justice Talking host Margot Adler talks with Ralph Grossi about farmland conservation and the role of U.S. policy. |
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| 02/08/2007 |
| Shaping
the Farm Bill to Better Serve Agriculture,
Urban Communities and Smart Growth |
| AFT's CA State Director Ed Thompson, Jr. leads a discussion about the relationship between smart growth and the 2007 Farm Bill. [MP3, 22.3 MB, 0:48:48] |
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| 02/02/2007 |
| The Clock is Ticking |
| Ralph
Grossi speaks out for an increased budget
authority for the 2007 Farm Bill to meet
critical needs and increase public benefits
[MP3, 2 MB]. |
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| 01/19/2007 |
| The Farm Bill Shapes the Food System |
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The Farm and Food Policy Project's Allen
Hance discusses this important project
[MP3, 4 MB].
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| 01/17/2007 |
| Ralph Grossi Gets to the Baseline of Matters |
| AFT
President Ralph Grossi discusses the
Baseline and the importance of funding
conservation programs [MP3, 3 MB]. |
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| 01/16/2007 |
| Professor Testifies for Conservation |
| Kathleen
Merrigan, Ph.D., assistant professor
of agriculture, food and environment
at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science
and Policy at Tufts University, discusses
the need for more funding for conservation
[MP3, 3.6 MB]. |
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| 10/31/06 |
| A
New Safety Net for Producers |
| AFT
President Ralph Grossi speaks about the
need for a new kind of safety net for
producers, and some broader themes that
will be important in a redesign of farm
policy in 2007. Audio recording [MP3, 2.89MB] |
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| 09/11/06 |
| Tune
in to Farm Policy |
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 VIDEO
and AUDIO PODCAST: AFT
President Ralph Grossi speaks with well-respected
farm policy journalist Keith Good, of
FarmPolicy.com on
the future of the farm bill and AFT’s
vision for change.
[For iTunes: MP4,
08:43]
[For audio only: MP3,
20 MB, 21:50]
[For Windows Media: WMV.
08:43]
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| Farmland Protection |
| 5/30/2007 |
| A Blurring Line Between Farmland and Cities in Michigan |
| AFT Great Lakes Director Scott Everett speaks with NPR about purchase of development rights (PDR) as a means of decreasing the loss of farmland in Michigan. |
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| 06/16/06 |
| The Loss of Farmland in Florida |
| AFT's Bob Wagner is a guest expert on the WUSF public radio program Florida Matters. This edition focuses on Florida's disappearing farmland. Can Florida agriculture find ways to coexist with development? |
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| Smart
Growth |
| 04/25/2007 |
| Implementing
the Next Generation of Smart Growth & Farmland
Protection |
| AFT's John Miller discusses how sustainable development leads to sustainable agriculture. [MP3, 36.2 MB, 1:19:11] |
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| 04/25/2007 |
| The
Next Chapter for Smart Growth: Capacity
Building to Institutionalization |
| AFT's CA State Director Ed Thompson, Jr. joins the NPSG keynote plenary and speaks of farmland protection priorities as they relate to smart growth. [MP3, 36.1 MB, 1:18:59] |
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| conference keynotes |
| 5/21/2007 |
| "Putting Food Back in the Farm Bill" |
| The Farm bill can also be a healthy food bill. Listen to author Dan Imhoff,
executive vice president of Clyde’s Restaurant Group Tom Meyer, former Undersecretary o
f Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, Gus Schumacher and Mid-Atlantic farmers as they speak on a plenary moderated by Judith Weinraub: Jefferson Fellow and former staff reporter for Washington Post Food section. |
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| 11/15/2006 |
| What Good Is A Country Without Farmland? |
| Michael Ableman is a farmer, educator, photographer and writer. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Agriculture in California and in this special broadcast he shares his photographs and the stories they tell. [MP3] |
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| 11/14/2006 |
| Ralph Grossi & Farming on the Edge |
| AFT President Ralph Grossi speaks about a new direction for farm policy at AFT's National Farming on the Edge Conference. [MP3] |
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| 11/15/2006 |
| "We Are In The Business to Change The World" |
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Gary Hirshberg is chairman, president and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s largest manufacturer of organic yogurt. Hirshberg was a keynote speaker at AFT's 2006 National Conference. [MP3]
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