Send a Letter to the Editor of Your Newspaper

Here are some talking points you can include:

• Since passage of the last bill in 2014, there have been 52 public hearings within the House Agriculture Committee. Yet not one included a witness skeptical of increasing federal spending on the income subsidy programs for agricultural businesses.
• Build a better farm bill – give more people seats at the farm bill negotiating table. This is especially important for the 295 million Americans without an elected member of Congress on the House Committee on Agriculture. We all deserve a chance to create a farm bill that better serves all Americans and all of agriculture.
• Governing happens from the middle, and long-lasting substantial reform comes from the willingness to have hard conversations and make tough decisions needed to serve everyone better. Increasingly partisan policymaking isn’t producing results. So let’s try something radically different.
• People are disgusted with Congress because the process is broken. Change it. Start with actually getting people in the same room.