Dear John,

ASBN’s Regenerative Agriculture and Justice Working Group recently released their policy priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill. We will be sending these priorities to Congress in early September after they return from August recess. As our first public foray into the upcoming Farm Bill negotiations, our goal is to reach 500 signatories to let Congress know that there is a strong business, economic, and farmer case for policies supporting regenerative agriculture and food systems.

Now is the time to sign-on to the growing list of stakeholders supporting the Regenerative Agriculture and Justice 2023 Farm Bill Priorities.

Passed every five years, the farm bill is one of the main opportunities for stakeholders to engage in the federal policies that shape our food and agricultural system. This system, and the policies that have supported it, have contributed to the climate crisis, weakened supply chains, diminished biodiversity, concentrated farm ownership into increasingly fewer hands, hollowed-out local and rural economies, allowed discrimination to be left unaddressed, and left millions of Americans without access to healthy food. Making progress towards regenerative, inclusive, and just agriculture in the 2023 Farm Bill will be vital for reversing these crises and building a better economic system that works for all.

That’s why our 2023 Farm Bill priorities call on Congress to: 

• Support small-scale and discriminated-against people of color farmers that have been practicing regenerative agriculture at the margins of society for centuries.
• Invest in market development and infrastructure for regenerative, organic, and local and regional farmers and ranchers.
• Incentivize, finance, and conduct training and outreach to transition conventional farmers and ranchers to regenerative agriculture.