Organizations that the WyoAg Coalition will either belong to, or work with to achieve our mission: |
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WyoAg Coalition
Working to build healthy, sustainable systems that connect Wyoming’s producers, processors, and consumers |
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WyoAg Coalition will primarily work at the State and local levels, and will establish its priorities accordingly. In order to have an effective voice in the National arena, WyoAg will become the first, and only Wyoming, member organization belonging to the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (SAC).
While SAC’s activities are focused on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the WyoAg Coalition’s activities will be focused on Cheyenne. WyoAg Coalition’s initial priorities include working to support good anti-trust and fair competition legislation; working against the implementation of a National Animal Identification System; supporting measures to improve local food systems including direct marketing, and farmers markets; supporting farm and ranch to school initiatives; and supporting efforts to encourage and facilitate organic certification for Wyoming producers. |
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WyoAg Coalition will form a Wyoming State Chapter of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. The mission of the Farm and Ranch Alliance:
Independent farmers and ranchers need a voice. For too long, our elected officials have listened to the huge industrial-agriculture companies, and made the laws and regulations to benefit them. Independent farmers and ranchers were forgotten or, worse, targeted for ever-more burdensome regulations. It is time to make a change!
The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) is dedicated to representing non-corporate agriculture and animal owners, from homesteaders to horse owners to full-time ranchers. FARFA’s work also serves those who are local foods consumers, people who care about protecting our traditional way of life, and other like-minded individuals.
As set out in our charter, FARFA’s mission includes:
· To assure the independence of farmers, ranchers, livestock owners, and homesteaders in management, control, identification, and marketing of their products · To assure that no additional burdens, costs, obligation, or responsibilities not essential to the public interest are imposed on them · To assure that their real and personal property interests are protected against infringement absent an essential public interest · To assure that the public has access to both the information and resources to choose the foods and products that they desire · To promote local trade and assure that any activities by multinational agricultural entities contrary to this interest be resisted and eliminated · To assure that the Constitution and laws of the United States are observed in strict accordance with their terms · To assure that sustainable agriculture, the family farm, and domestic agricultural products be supported, encouraged, and enhanced. |
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Information on how to get out of the National Animal Identification System, and more |
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The mission of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is to defend the freedoms and to broaden the rights of sustainable farmers and their consumers to produce and consume local, nutrient-dense food. |
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National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association is a coalition of Independent Consumer and Farmer groups united in a common mission and purpose : |