I am writing to you as your constituent to express my opposition to the House Farm Bill (H.R. 7567 - the "Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026”) and urge you to vote “no” on the bill.

Family-scale farmers have been struggling to make ends meet, and years of high input prices, low farmgate prices, severe weather, USDA staffing cuts, funding cancellations, and market consolidation have made it even harder, all while contributing to high food prices in the grocery aisle. In its current form, this bill does nothing to address these problems, yet family farmers have been championing solutions to them for decades.

Instead, this bill

• makes changes that are too small to genuinely improve the state of agricultural lending at USDA, while relaxing oversight of agricultural lenders that have a history of discrimination
  
  
• would create measly "studies" and "commissions" on farmland access that do not materially improve USDA oversight of farmland ownership or meaningfully address problematic trends of financial institutions and investment firms who are buying up farmland and driving up prices
  
  
• includes a single pilot program related custom slaughter facilities for livestock producers, but otherwise excludes a range of proposals that would address the corporate takeover of meatpacking, including mandatory country of origin labeling, on-farm slaughter, and anti-monopoly enforcement
  
  
• undercuts the abilities of states to ensure a healthy food system, like provide important protections for farmers and farmworkers who use pesticides or ensure food and farm safety at livestock operations

Instead, the House should send this back to the Agriculture Committee to bring it back to the drawing board. I urge you to oppose this bill on the floor. Thank you for your time.