Sarah Rachor, Sidney, helps advocate for agriculture at each the state and nationwide stage.
She just lately attended the one hundred and twentieth Anniversary National Farmers Union Convention Denver, CO, offering a voice for farmers by serving as a delegate for Montana Farmers Union and serving as Policy Committee chair.
As a delegate, Rachor helped approve 5 particular orders of enterprise together with Fairness for Farmers, Family Farming and Supply Chains, Family Farming and Agricultural Workforce and Food Processing Reform, Family Farming and Climate Change, and Family Farming and Dairy Policy Reform.
Over the course of the approaching 12 months, these 5 particular orders of enterprise will information the group’s authorities affairs priorities.
For over six years, Rachor has been concerned with the Montana Farmers Union group and has been actively concerned on the nationwide stage for 3 years.
Before her involvement, Rachor spent 15 years touring across the nation as a marriage photographer.
After her daughter was born, she determined to return to her roots and assist her father function a 600-acre irrigated farm in Sidney.
“Being gone gave me an even bigger appreciation for the ag business as an entire, and what we do to not solely make a livelihood, however to feed folks in our nation and all over the world.”
As a fourth-generation farmer, she raises sugar beets, wheat, soybeans, and alfalfa, and is experimenting with hops. As she rediscovered her ardour for agriculture, she determined to turn into concerned with Montana Farmers Union.
“I needed to help agriculture and supply a voice for farmers on the state stage and in Washington, D.C.,” she mentioned. “Lots of people complain about how issues are run within the state and in Washington, D.C. and I noticed this as a chance to become involved with a corporation that speaks on to our state and our nationwide legislative our bodies. Numerous what we do is simply educating them about what farmers and ranchers do as a result of there may be a lot misinformation on the market.”
Rachor is on the state board of administrators for Montana’s Farmers Union and is an energetic member of the National Farmers Union group, the place she speaks with legislators on ag associated points.
“We fly into DC yearly in September and have a couple of of our members from across the nation discuss to model new legislators. This approach they’ve a farmer they’ll join with and get questions answered and assist them perceive farm points.”
Rachor defined that this helps legislators make choices on one thing that they could not have seen of their district earlier than.
At the state stage, Rachor wish to see an even bigger push for regional processing.
“In Montana we develop quite a lot of our personal meals, however we do not eat quite a lot of our personal food- particularly within the jap a part of the state. So, I’m hoping that we are able to push again in the direction of some extra regional and native meals,” added Rachor.
She would additionally wish to see extra folks become involved with Farmers Union organizations.
“There is at all times a necessity for extra folks to be concerned and for extra voices to be heard,” she mentioned. “There is a lot misinformation on the market. We want as many voices as potential to assist educate shoppers on the place their meals comes from.”
For extra info on Montana’s Farmers Union and steps on learn how to become involved, go to https://montanafarmersunion.com.
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