Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) is a nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.

America needs an agriculture that supports healthy rural communities, protects the environment, and promotes a safe, diverse, and stable food supply. To achieve these goals, America needs a healthy family farm-based system of agriculture. Targeted, top-notch legal information and advocacy are indispensable in the struggle to defend family-based agriculture and secure social and economic justice for farmers. FLAG exists to provide those legal services.

"We need decent people in office and in corporations, but we need at the same time to check them if they don't comply with the rules. And that's what you've done, time and time again. FLAG lawyers have been seen in courts, before administrative bodies, before federal institutions, before the Congress, arguing the case for justice for rural families. I applaud you." ~ Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale

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News

New Guides to Help Farmers Understand and Negotiate Organic Dairy Contracts (5/13/08)

Translated Guide Helps Hmong Producers Evaluate Poultry Contracting (4/18/2008)

New Article to Help Organic Farmers Understand Laws Prohibiting Use of Genetically Modified Organisms (10/22/07)

New Publications to Help Farmers Understand Their Rights to Be Paid for Fruit and Vegetable Crops (10/22/07)

New Article to Help Organic Farmers Improve Disaster Readiness and Recovery (10/16/07)

New Legal Guide to Help Farmers Make the Most of Windy Land (8/7/07)

New Guide to Help Farmers Participate in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) (6/29/07)

New Report on Policy Incentives for Community-Based Wind Energy Developments (5/14/07)

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Publications and Articles

When Your Processor Requires More than Organic Certification: Additional Requirements in Organic Milk Contracts by Jill E. Krueger (April 2008)

Hushed Up: Confidentiality Clauses in Organic Milk Contracts by Jill E. Krueger (April 2008)

Disaster Readiness and Recovery: Legal Considerations for Organic Farmers by Jill E. Krueger (Sept. 2007)

If Your Farm Is Organic, Must It Be GMO-Free? Organic Farmers, Genetically Modified Organisms, and the Law by Jill E. Krueger (Sept. 2007)

Understanding Farmers' Rights to be Paid for Fruit and Vegetable Crops (Sept. 2007)

Federal Law Protects Farmers' Rights to be Paid for Fruit and Vegetable Contracts (Sept. 2007)

Is Your Farm "EQIPed" for Conservation? A Farmers' Guide to Understanding the Environmental Quality Incentives Program by Jill E. Krueger (Spring 2007)

Farmers' Guide to Wind Energy: Legal Issues in Farming the Wind by Jessica A. Shoemaker, Christy Anderson Brekken, and Karen R. Krub (June 2007)

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