The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 2027 (AAA 2027)

A primary cause of agricultural failure in America is the rules governing the agricultural industry: rules that encourage consolidation, concentrate critical infrastructure, reduce farmers’ and ranchers’ practical access to buyers and processors, and transfer risks producers cannot control to the farm level.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 2027 (AAA 2027) is model federal legislation developed by the Farm Security Initiative to correct the structural conditions driving America’s recurring agricultural crises.

The Act establishes guardrails around the American food system:

·      it improves market transparency;

·      limits excessive concentration and single-point exposure;

·      requires sufficient regional reserve capacity;

·      authorizes investment in distributed input-supply, processing, storage and transportation infrastructure;

·      provides a limited, voluntary pre-season buffer against below-cost market pricing;

·      establishes minimum agricultural contract standards;

·      and gives food production, processing, storage, transportation and distribution priority for essential resources during scarcity.

AAA 2027 does not replace private markets, guarantee farm income, prescribe production or redistribute farmland. It changes the rules under which markets operate to preserve competition, producer market access, regional capacity and continuity of food production.

The legislation follows a well-established American precedent. During the agricultural collapse of the 1930s, Congress did more than provide temporary relief. It changed the laws governing agricultural markets, conserved productive land and invested in rural infrastructure. AAA 2027 applies that same principle to the structural problems facing agriculture today.

Food is critical national infrastructure. Federal law must treat it as such.