Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG)

Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) FLAG provides legal services and support to family farmers and their communities in order to help ke

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 crisi

s 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' Guide to ECP 2nd Edition October 2025Natural disasters are a part of life that drastically farmers affect how f...
10/31/2025

Farmers' Guide to ECP 2nd Edition October 2025
Natural disasters are a part of life that drastically farmers affect how farmers work and knowing what to do in response will make all the difference.

We now have a NEW GUIDE on our website: Farmers’ Guide to the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP).

Through ECP, farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural producers can rehabilitate farmland and infrastructure that is damaged by natural disasters; and conserve water for livestock, vineyards, and orchards in a drought emergency. The Post-Disaster Tips subsection describes seven best practices, particularly in the weeks immediately after a disaster and at the outset of the application process.

Farmers, farm advocates, farm attorneys, and others are welcome to consult, download, print, or share the Guide for free:

http://www.flaginc.org/2025/10/farmers-guide-to-the-emergency-conservation-program-ecp-second-edition/

Farmers' Guide to Carbon Contracts now available. FLAG has just published a Farmers’ Guide to Carbon Contracts. It is de...
03/04/2025

Farmers' Guide to Carbon Contracts now available.

FLAG has just published a Farmers’ Guide to Carbon Contracts. It is designed to help farmers understand carbon market contracts and make an informed decision about whether to agree to a carbon contract. The details for how the carbon is captured by farming practices, how farmers are paid, and other important requirements are set out in the carbon market contract.

This Guide looks closely at those carbon market contracts from the farmer’s perspective. Farmers, farm advocates, farm attorneys, and others are welcome to consult, download, print, or share the Guide for free.

http://www.flaginc.org/2025/03/farmers-guide-to-carbon-contracts-now-available/

Third Edition of the Farmers’ Guide to USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program out now. Updated DFAP Guides ava...
09/29/2023

Third Edition of the Farmers’ Guide to USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program out now. Updated DFAP Guides available at

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on September 22, 2023 that the deadline to apply for the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP) has been extended to January 13, 2024, to give eligible farmers, ranchers and forest landowners more time to apply for assistance. The original dea...

09/22/2023

DFAP - Deadline Extended to January 13, 2024 for Farmers to Apply for Program

Today the United States Department of Agriculture announced that the USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program wa...
07/07/2023

Today the United States Department of Agriculture announced that the USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance Program was open. FLAG has created a brief Guide to this program. This Brief Farmers’ Guide to USDA Discrimination Financial Assistance is a very short discussion of the Program. A more comprehensive Farmers’ Guide, that looks at the details of the program, is coming soon.

http://www.flaginc.org/2023/07/brief-farmers-guide-to-usda-discrimination-financial-assistance-program/

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6 W 5th Street, Ste 650
Saint Paul, MN
55102

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Monday 9am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Friday 9am - 4:30pm

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+18778604349

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