FARFA has developed resources to help farmers, farmers markets, and food businesses navigate the COVID-19 crisis. If your farm or farmers’ market may be closed due…
Keeping Farms Working
FARFA has gotten multiple requests from farmers and food businesses concerned about their employees being stopped while traveling. Please recognize that no one has any experience…
Sample guideline for farmers’ markets
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released helpful guidance for farmers’ market operations Read the LA County guidelines here. The Texas Department of State Health…
Keep Farmers’ Markets Open!
This letter focuses on farmers’ markets because that is where there has been some controversy, with some local governments shutting down markets. We have not heard…
Tell USDA to Reject Zero Tolerance Policy for Salmonella
A personal injury attorney has filed a petition with the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), urging the agency to label 31 different strains of salmonella…
Texas Animal Health Commission comes up for Sunset Review
Published December 9, 2019 Update: December 2019, read FARFA’s comments to TAHC here. Update: March 21, 2021, on legislative action on Sunset Bill. Administrative agencies are…
Support HB 1284/ SB 1805
UPDATED 5-1-19 Help small poultry farmers today! Small farmers can sell “ungraded” eggs at the farmers’ markets in Texas, but regulations prevent restaurants and retailers from…
Full Circle: A Story of Raw Milk
(Editor’s Note: Over the last decade, FARFA has heard dozens of testimonies on the impact raw milk has made on individuals’ health and livelihoods. This year,…
Gathering of Voices: A Blog
We begin this blog during the 2019 Texas Legislative Session. Here we plan to share the stories (and the voices) of people whose lives are impacted…
Coalition Poses Questions to TX Ag Commissioner Candidates
As a member of the Texas Local Food & Farm Coalition, FARFA helped develop a questionnaire, sent by the Coalition to the Republican and Democratic candidates…