FLAG provides legal services and support to family farmers and their communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.
Since its inception, FLAG has provided an extensive array of legal services to financially distressed farmers and their advocates and attorneys nationwide.
During the farm financial crisis of the 1980s, FLAG's work focused on credit issues. FLAG established a strong reputation as a national leader in protecting and preserving family farms. FLAG's work helped thousands of farmers weather that crisis and remain on their farms.
Since that time, FLAG's work has broadened to include other issues of concern to family farmers and ranchers: sustainable agriculture, corporate concentration and vertical integration in the poultry and livestock industries, contract farming, race discrimination in USDA programs, accountability in government support programs, and legal help for farmers seeking to develop value-added enterprises. By providing legal education, backup support, impact litigation, and legislative and administrative technical assistance services to its client organizations, FLAG continues to play a key role in preserving the family farm system of agriculture in this country.
Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) is a nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services and support to family farmers and their communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.
FLAG offers many legal resources for farmers. To learn more about specific topics, check out FLAG's publications on our website at: http://www.flaginc.org/topics/.
