Practical Farmers of Iowa
Donate Now

Our Programs

Find A Farmer

Blog

PFI Farmers Visit Washington D.C.

March 5th, 2011 @ 9:19 pm by Sarah

Four PFI farmers attended Clean Water Week organized by the Clean Water Network the first week of March in Washington D.C. Farmers presented at a Capitol Hill briefing about how their farming systems affect water quality and how current incentives decrease water quality. Nathan Anderson gave a well received presentation about returning the farm, working to make changes and also the reality of the current ag policies and how they affect his farming system. Jack Knight, Sean Skeehan and Earl Hafner also gave input during the conference, during working group sessions about farming in the Mississippi River Basin and also visited with Senators and Representatives from their districts.

Tags: , ,
Posted in Next Generation, Policy | Comments Off

CSP, EQIP, WHIP or EQIP OI–go to your County offices now!

December 20th, 2010 @ 10:08 am by Sarah

Several Farm Bill Conservation programs will have sign-up deadlines in early 2011. Listed in order of deadline are the programs below plus a link to more information about each program from the Iowa NRCS’ website.

If you’ve already signed up this year for these programs or have experiences to share from prior sign-ups please send an email to the list.

Tags: ,
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Farm Bill Helpline

July 15th, 2009 @ 10:21 am by Luke

The Center for Rural Affairs has established a Farm Bill Helpline to help provide farmers and ranchers with information on farm bill programs that can help them get started in farming or ranching, establish high value niche markets, implement conservation-based farming and ranching systems as well as transition to organic farming or ranching.

The Farm Bill Helpline will assist farmers and ranchers with programs such as the Conservation Stewardship Program (CStP), the Environmental Quality Incentives Organic Initiative (EQIP), the Value Added Producer Grants Program, as well as the beginning farmer and rancher provisions and incentives.

Through the Helpline, the Center for Rural Affairs would also like to learn what the farmers or ranchers experience is with signing up for these programs.

Many critical administrative policy decisions are never published in the Federal Register. They are buried deep in USDA handbooks and computer programs. The only way to discover them is to learn from the people enrolling.

This will inform our advocacy and can remove administrative barriers that keep farmers and ranchers from participating. This will also protect the integrity of conservation programs by ensuring that they are implemented in a manner that truly supports conservation.

It is critically important that as many farmers and ranchers as possible participate in the programs to ensure we build a strong constituency for them.

Contact the Farm Bill Helpline via the web at:

http://www.cfra.org/09/sustainable-options

Or, by calling Traci Bruckner at (402) 687-2100.

Tags:
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off