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Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) is a nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services and support to family farmers and their communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.
America needs an agriculture that supports healthy communities, protects the environment, and promotes a safe, diverse, and stable food supply. To achieve these goals, America needs a healthy family farm-based system of agriculture. Targeted, top-notch legal information and advocacy are indispensable in the struggle to defend family-based agriculture and secure social and economic justice for farmers. FLAG exists to provide those legal services.
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NewsDeadline for filing claims in Black Farmers lawsuit is MAY 11, 2012 (5/10/12)
FLAG Board Member Susan A. Schneider, described as "one of the most influential people in modern ag law,” interviewed for Drovers Cattle Network (redirect to Drovers CattleNetwork website) (4/20/12) FLAG Testifies before the Agriculture and Rural Economics Committee on Immigrant and Minority Microloan program (redirect to Rural Enterprise Center website ) Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Economies Meeting Minutes (redirect to Senate website) (4/18/12) FLAG and Local Harvest Alliance highlight the need for farmland preservation to the Met Council (4/9/12) Local Harvest Alliance Invites You to their 4th Annual Meeting: "Preserving Farmland and Protecting Viable Family Farms, Green Acres and Local Control of Our Community" Thursday, March 15, from 7:00 - 9:00pm View invite (3/14/12) Safe Food Handling Practices for Immigrant Farmers Workshop TOMORROW, March 10, from 8:30am - 12:30 pm at the University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach Center See flyer for more information (2/23/12) FLAG Senior Staff Attorney, Stephen Carpenter, appointed Ombudsman under the In re Black Farmers Settlement Agreement. View Order of Reference: Appointment of Ombudsman (2/6/12) Helping farmers to grow skills: Conference is designed to help immigrants participate in U.S. marketplace article by Kevin Giles, Star Tribune (1/18/12) Minnesota Philanthropy Partners video highlights FLAG’s partnership with The Minnesota Project and our work with Hmong American farmers in Minnesota to expand direct marketing and access to farmland. FLAG’s work with immigrant farmers is currently supported by: The Saint Paul Foundation; F. R. Bigelow Foundation; USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program; USDA Office of Advocacy and Outreach - Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers; The Minneapolis Foundation; Minnesota Department of Agriculture; Wedge Community Co-op; and Yackel Foundation. (12/27/11) 7th Immigrant and Minority Farmers Conference Friday and Saturday, February 3-4, 2012 St. Paul, MN (12/19/11) FLAG Presents Awards to Three Outstanding Advocates for Family Farmers (12/8/11) Sherrod on Growing Poverty: "Something has to Change" (Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder) 11/10/11 Sunset, Sunrise: Scott's Farm Board is Back (Star Tribune) 11/8/11 FLAG Announces Three New Board Members (10/17/11) FLAG Celebrates 25-Year Fight for Family Farmers with Civil Rights Pioneer Shirley Sherrod (10/14/11) Publications and ArticlesDeadlines for Minnesota Farmers to Sign Up for NAP Program (January 2012) Selling Your Products - Level I (November 2011)
Deadlines for Minnesota Farmers to Sign Up for NAP (Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance) Program (February 2011) Tools for Dairy Farmers in Tough Economic Times (November 2010) Fall Deadlines for Minnesota Farmers to Sign Up for NAP (Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance) Program (August 2010) Planting the Seeds for Public Health: How the Farm Bill Can Help Farmers to Produce and Distribute Healthy Foods (August 2010) Selling Directly to Schools: Tips for Farmers (July 2010) Leasing Farm Land in Minnesota (February 2010) SURE Program Now Available for 2008 and 2009 Crop Disaster Losses (February 2010) |
"We need decent people in office and in corporations, but we need at the same time to check them if they don't comply with the rules. And that's what you've done, time and time again. FLAG lawyers have been seen in courts, before administrative bodies, before federal institutions, before the Congress, arguing the case for justice for rural families. I applaud you." ~ Former Vice President
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FLAG has written educational materials to help farmers understand their contracts Educational material also available in the Hmong Language FLAG tau sau ntawv los pab qhia cov neeg ua liag ua teb totaub lawv cov ntawv cog lus Cov ntawv qhia tau muaj nyob rau hauv lus hmoob thiab Visit the Contracts Page“But for the work that FLAG has done over the past 25 years, there would be a huge, huge hole in rural America.” ~ Dave Frederickson, Commissioner
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Happy farmers at the conclusion of a food safety/hand washing training course. This program was funded by the University of Minnesota's Healthy Foods Healthy Lives Community Engagement Initiative. (4/24/12) 
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