Resources for Action

NSAC offers an online advocacy toolkit which includes information about visiting, calling, and writing your member of Congress, writing effective op-eds, and an overview of the federal legislative process.

Social media is a powerful tool, especially if you know how to use it effectively. Find tips in this OEFFA factsheet for using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other platforms to connect with public officials, advertise events, and mobilize supporters around the issues you care about.

Meeting with and calling your elected officials and their staff is one of the most important ways you can influence public policy. This guide includes tips on how to schedule, prepare for, and run an effective meeting, along with information to help you call your Congressional office.

Meeting in-district with your member of Congress (MOC) or state legislator and/or their staff is a great way to build a relationship and ensure your voice and priorities are being heard. This guide can help with the process! 

One of the best ways you can make a difference without leaving home is by writing an op-ed or letter to the editor of your local paper. This guide explains how you can put together a brief but impactful letter on food and agricultural issues.

A list of Ohio and national newspapers and publications accepting letters to the editor, op-eds, or other types of guest submissions. Updated June 2023 (subject to change).

In this short video, OEFFA Policy Director Amalie Lipstreu shares best practices for calling your members of Congress.

In this short video, OEFFA member Debra Knapke shares best practices for submitting a comment to your members of Congress. 

In this short video, OEFFA Grassroots Policy Organizer Nicole Wolcott shares best practices for using social media to connect with your members of Congress. 

In collaboration with OEFFA members and Erik Peterson of Bending the Arc Strategies, these statements of belief and narrative shifts were developed and now drive our daily work. 

The next farm bill must be a climate bill. See what other Ohio farmers have to say about being on the frontlines of the climate crisis. 

This National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition report provides a scientific review of the climate crisis and describes how agriculture affects and is affected by the climate.

This Farm Action webinar and its panelists share how we can use the 2023 Farm Bill to reform policies and programs to better support diversified farm operations, contribute to resilient soils, and hold abusive corporations accountable.

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition's comprehensive 2023 Farm Bill Platform provides title-by-title recommendations across farm bill programs and policies detailing how Congress can better support farmers and ranchers.

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition provides an overview of the farm bill, including what it covers and how the process works.

OEFFA introduces its 2023 Farm Bill Platform and describes ways to get involved in supporting the five planks.

In 2022, OEFFA met with farmers and consumers across Ohio to learn about their vision for a sustainable food and farming system, revealing five key values which comprise the OEFFA 2023 Farm Bill Platform.

In this series of five factsheets, OEFFA describes our member's vision for the 2023 Farm Bill: promoting soil health and climate resilience through conservation policy, increasing investments in local and regional food systems, addressing consolidation in the food and agriculture system, investing in organic and sustainable research, and providing more support for beginning and BIPOC farmers.

Five OEFFA members describe their vision for the farm bill.

Meeting in-district with your member of Congress (MOC) or state legislator and/or their staff is a great way to build a relationship and ensure your voice and priorities are being heard. This guide can help with the process! 

Read about why it is critical for Congress to follow through for farmers and protect agriculture conservation in the 2023 Farm Bill within Title II. This is our #1 priority for the 2023 Farm Bill. 

Marker bills are an important part of the legislative process, including the 2023 Farm Bill. Learn what a marker bill is and why we need them.

In September 2022, the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association was one of more than 150 organizations to send a joint letter to President Biden, urging him to push for a transformational 2023 Farm Bill that reflects the values of his administration. 

A flawed "bioengineered" label for genetically engineered food debuted in 2020. Learn how to understand this label when you see it.

Organic farms do not use genetically engineered seed or feed, but the label goes above and beyond the absence of GE seed, as described in this OEFFA factsheet.

This OEFFA factsheet provides an overview of the negative impacts genetic engineering has on farmers, the environment, and eaters.

This OEFFA factsheet describes some of the ways genetic engineering negatively impacts our natural ecosystem.

In this Cleveland Plain Dealer op-ed, OEFFA policy director Amalie Lipstreu calls for reforms to federal crop insurance programs.

This Farm Action webinar and its panelists share how we can use the 2023 Farm Bill to reform policies and programs to better support diversified farm operations, contribute to resilient soils, and hold abusive corporations accountable.

Crop insurance is critical to protect farmers from unforeseen weather events, but according to this Land Stewardship Project report, the program's torn safety net boosts corporate bottom lines while harming family farmers and the land they depend on.

This National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition article provides an overview of the corporate consolidation in the livestock industry and policy measures that could address it.

Crop insurance should be Fair, Functional, and Informed. OEFFA members came together to share their proposals for how crop insurance should work for everyone. 

This informative infographic provides a visual overview of U.S. crop insurance subsidies.