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The new $867 billion Farm Bill just signed President Donald Trump is getting praise from tribes, Native farmers and advocates. One Native agriculture organization calls the number of Native-related provisions “unprecedented”. It also means access to more USDA programs and some changes for tribal food producers and the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (commodity foods program). The bill also legalizes hemp opening doors to tribes getting into the industry.
Guests:
Erin Parker – research director and staff attorney at the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
A-dae Romero-Briones (Cochiti and Kiowa) – director of programs for First Nations Development Institute
Joe VanAlstine (citizen of the Little Travers Band of Odawa Indians) – vice president for the National Association for the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations
Jeff Cormell – attorney with McAllister Garfield, P.C. in Denver
Break 1 Music: Plant The Seeds (song) Digging Roots (artist) We Are (album)
Break 2 Music: Plains Vs Coast, Pt 2 (song) Fawn Wood (artist) Iskwewak (album)
