By Cam Lee

American counterpart to NFU supports efforts to maintain Canada’s supply management

Aug 5, 2025 | 3:12 PM

A U.S. sister organization to Canada’s National Farmers Union is supporting their northern neighbours’ effort to keep Canada’s supply management system intact.

The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), a coalition of grassroots and farmer-led groups across the U.S., say they represent more than 100,000 independent family farmers, ranchers, and fishers.

The NFFC said their members believe communities have the right to determine how their food is grown and harvested. They add the food system should receive fair wages, and all producers should have equitable access to credit, land, seeds, water, markets, and other resources.

They said food and agriculture policy must support farming, ranching, and fishing practices that don’t compromise future generations.

“Since our founding in 1986, we have been advocating for fair trade policy in the U.S. and across North America, as well as for systemic reform of the dairy policy in the United States,” the release stated.

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The NFFC said the organization and its members condemn efforts in the U.S. and in Canada to undermine supply management by placing corporate profits ahead of farmer livelihoods.

“Rather than attempting to turn the relatively small Canadian market into an outlet for U.S. oversupply of dairy production, we in the U.S. should draw insight from the Canadian system, and more importantly revisit the U.S.’s own agricultural policy history, to once again manage agricultural markets to ensure fair compensation for producers, reasonable prices for consumers, fair wages and treatment for farm workers, and care for the animals and environment our farmers base their livelihoods upon.”

To that end, the organization said their Milk from Families Dairy Act has been crafted to reform dairy policy in the U.S. toward supply management and fair price floors, and in-turn respecting Canada’s dairy supply management system, in the spirit of supporting food sovereignty in both countries.