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Farm Aid invests in farm and food systems

Farm Aid has invested more than 500-thousand-dollars in grants to help strengthen family farms.  Grants were distributed to more than 80 family farm, rural service, and urban agriculture organizations in 35 states.

In addition to the grants, Farm Aid also provided funding to three policy organizations: the National Farmers Union, the National Family Farm Coalition, and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition to address issues like credit and land access; funding for support of beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers; food safety; and the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration rule.

Farm Aid president Willie Nelson says the real power of Farm Aid’s grant program is creating a network of change-makers in cities and rural areas across the country.