Below is an email from the Texas Department of State Health Services in response to a raw milk customer’s inquiry about the legality of raw milk…
Raw Milk Pickup Shut Down by State & City Agents
Health departments in Texas have stepped up their attacks on the public’s right to purchase food directly from farmers, resorting to bringing the police to harass…
No water, no farms, no food
Ensuring that farmers have reasonable access to water, now and in the future, is not a matter of protecting farmers’ business interests — it’s a…
Water
No water, no farms, no food. Ensuring that farmers have reasonable access to water, now and in the future, is not a matter of protecting farmers’…
The Safety of Farmers’ Markets
Bad Science Behind the Recent Attack Download a pdf of this article here On January 17, Professor Bellemare, an economist at the University of Minnesota,…
Texas Water Fights – Round Two
In the last Texas legislative session, legislators proposed a California-style scheme of massive water transfers around the state. FARFA played a key role in defeating the…
Texas Legislative Report
Over 6,000 bills were filed in the 84th Texas Legislative Session, creating a massive challenge even to monitor which ones could impact family farmers and local…
Raw milk bill gets a Senate committee hearing!
The raw milk bill, HB 91, has been scheduled for a Senate Committee hearing on Monday morning! Time is running out fast to get the…
Calls needed to support the raw milk bill!
May 25, 2015: The raw milk bill, HB 91, passed the Texas House with a strong bipartisan vote. But time is running out for it…
Water Fights
With your help, we succeeded in stopping the bill to study how to create a “statewide marketing and conveyance grid” for water in Texas. But the…