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How is U.S. farm policy working? How can it be improved? The ELCA Washington Office staff wants to know what YOU think!

BACKGROUND
The Farm Bill will come before the U.S. Congress for reauthorization in 2007. To help shape ELCA advocacy efforts around this bill, Mary Minette and Andrew Genszler from the ELCA Washington Office want to hear Lutheran views on how U.S. farm policy is working and how it could be improved.

Read the story on ELCA News.

HAVE YOUR SAY
The ELCA Washington Office staff are particularly interested in your thoughts on these issues at the forefront of the farm policy debate:

• Expanding access to healthy foods, increasing food security, and ending hunger;
• Promoting good stewardship of farm and ranch land;
• Building strong rural communities and providing opportunities for new farmers and ranchers;
• Developing new markets for farm products and encouraging investment in new products such as renewable energy
• Reforming trade distorting subsidies that negatively impact the economies and market access of developing countries; and
• Changes in the distribution of limited farm bill resources, including cuts to the commodities support program.

Please join our online discussion on the U.S. Farm Bill:

Click to join the ELCA Farm Bill online discussion on LutherLink!
(If you are not yet a member of LutherLink, you can register here.)

For more information on the ELCA Washington Office and ELCA advocacy ministries, visit www.elca.org/advocacy .