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The markets for seeds, equipment, feed, and fertilizer are dominated by a few large companies including Syngenta, DowDuPont, and Bayer. Small and emerging farmers can’t afford higher prices, but monopolizing meat companies can - such as Minnesota-based Cargill, Tyson, ADM, and JBS.
With corporate giants in control of our meat, seed, and fertilizer production, their agricultural practices put our water at risk, polluting for shareholder profit. Concentrated Animal Feedlots, drain tiles, manure lagoons, excessive use of fertilizers, pesticides, and excessive overall production pollute our water with fertilizer, manure, nitrogen, phosphorus, ammonia, antibiotics and produce climate-threatening methane.
We need to encourage the USDA to continue prioritizing local and sustainable farmers as an alternative to conglomerate companies in agriculture that damages water quality and quantity and instigates climate change - and we need your help.
Join us and fellow community members on May 3rd from 7 to 8 PM to learn more & take action! Register to receive a Zoom link, and join us for a discussion, public comment submission, and to learn more about next steps to protecting our farmers, our water, our climate, and our future. We look forward to seeing you there!