| MARCH 2, 2026 -- Spring is just around the corner. Maple sugar is flowing and greenhouses are prepping the seed bed for this year’s great bloom. Yet many farmers are struggling with discussions of which crops to plant, which contract to sign, and what program to sign-up for now that will give the greatest return at the fall harvest.
Many of our farmers are still awaiting the promised farm bailout funds, improved market trade deals, and promises made but yet to be kept. Where we are now is worse
than the 1980s farm crisis. Many farms have been sold, food prices have been raised throughout the year. The next year can have a devastating effect on all Americans and the world.
The upcoming mid-term elections are being addressed as a National Security event. The SAVE Act, or the SAVE America Act, will require passports or birth certificates as identification for elections. Remember Real ID when we had to bring all of our documents to the DMV to be verified and get the gold star on our licenses so we can fly. This cost us millions, and now we have to do it again. This time they require passports and birth certificates to be able to vote. But what happens to women who got married, can they vote? What about people who changed their names, can they vote? How about those who can’t find their birth certificates due to fires, weather disasters, can they vote? The Constitution says the states shall regulate elections, yet the present push is for the Federal government to regulate the elections.
Last month the President signed a bill to have whole milk to be served in schools. We have requested this for many years. Whole milk is healthy as the promotion goes, “Does a body good.” Days later we found out that the roll out was for Raw Milk, but was pulled back because of a listeria death of an infant drinking raw milk. Food safety is and will always be the priority for all consumers.
AG Day will be at the State Capitol on March 18th from 10-1. We will be there to greet and visit with our legislators and other agricultural groups. Come out and see what is happening in Connecticut.
While we are still in the cold and damp season and the seed catalogs are in the mailbox, now’s the time to reflect on the past year and plan for the future.
Happy spring!
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