Please call your United States senators toll-free today: 1-800-826-3688*

Urge them to support the following amendments to the farm bill as they come to the Senate floor:

• Lugar/Lautenberg Amendment
• Grassley/Dorgan Amendment
  

* This toll-free number will connect you to the Capitol switchboard; please ask to be connected to your senator’s office in order to leave your message.

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As Congress considers the farm bill, it would be wise to remember the world’s poor farmers that are deeply affected by its decisions on agriculture. Government subsidies to large agricultural corporations allow for export crops to be sold below market rates. This drives poor family farmers here at home and around the globe deeper into poverty.

The full Senate now has the chance to pass a fairer farm bill. There are several amendments that would improve the farm bill, including:

• Lugar/Lautenberg Amendment: Would broaden the agricultural safety net by making a free revenue insurance program available to all farmers, saving billions of dollars to be used for nutrition, conservation, the McGovern-Dole international school meals program and more.
  
  
• Grassley/Dorgan Amendment: Would cap commodity payments at $250,000 per household, helping ensure that payments are targeted to those who need them.

So, please, make the call today. Once you've made your calls, please let us know how they went. You can send an email to etafoya@globalsolutions.org.

Thank you!

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