Georgia Farmers Tell Our 2023 Farm Invoice Priorities — The Dust

Via Michael Wall 

Michael Wall is Georgia Organics’ Director of Advocacy and former Director of Farmer Services and products. 

In 2021, the Georgia Organics board of administrators handed a Strategic Plan that put the group on a brand new trail for advocacy, farm coverage, and motion construction. A brand new department of Georgia Organics, Farmer Advocacy, was once introduced in January 2022.  

To higher perceive the coverage priorities of our farmers, Georgia Organics Farmer Advocacy, with enter from Listen4Good and the Georgia Organics Advocacy and Techniques Committee, introduced a survey initiative. Over the spring and early summer time of 2022, Georgia Organics disbursed a survey to greater than 1,000 farmers to decide their best coverage priorities. 

The result of that survey, that includes the enter from 128 natural and sustainable farmers, are beneath. The survey information has additionally been printed as a record (to be had right here) that has been shared with dozens of advocacy companions and Congressional lawmakers. 

Demographic information at the farmers who crammed out the survey may be equipped on the conclusion of the survey’s effects abstract beneath.