Kansas Farmers Union (KFU), longtime supporter of P.L. 480 Food for Peace, is pleased to learn that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has reached an interagency agreement with the U.S. State Department to take on the work of Food for Peace. Food for Peace, once part of the now defunct U.S. Agency for International Development, was defunded as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts in early 2025. Following the cut to Food for Peace,...

MCPHERSON, KS - Kansas Farmers Union, Missouri Farmers Union, Common Ground Producers & Growers, and NCBA CLUSA are pleased to announce that the associations have received support to launch the Homegrown Prosperity initiative, a two-year effort focused on expanding cooperative education, readiness and early-stage development opportunities for rural communities in Kansas and Missouri. This project is supported in part by a 2025 grant from the  Patterson Family Foundation . The Homegrown...

MCPHERSON, KS - Kansas Farmers Union (KFU) members gathered last month at our state convention to debate and conside r policy priorities for 2026. One of those policies includes language that reads, “If a farmer cannot raise a crop that covers the cost of inputs and makes a profit, then they are not making a living wage.” Unfortunately, that is where most farmers have been trying to live for some time, and this misguided trade war compounded already high input costs, low commodity prices,...