Farmers of North America is currently the only organization that has as its sole purpose the representation of farmers' collective economic interests.  While such groups have been present in other business sectors and in politics for decades, FNA is the first such organization of its kind with farmers' profitability first and foremost in mind.

The absence of such an organization in the history of Canadian farming, coupled with a rise incorporate control of input costs has led to a gradual and devastating decline of farmers' profit margins and a drastic erosion of North America's farming community.  This has pitted individual producers against huge, multinational input conglomerates.  The power these companies have exerted has resulted in a uphill battle for farmers where whenever they get paid more for their product, the input companies increase their price at the same or higher rate.  However, when commodity prices have decreased, input costs have not declined to stay in-step with farmers, instead they have stayed the same, at best.  The result:  company coffers squeezing every last penny out of farmers' already razor-thin margins.  

This staggering disparity between commodity prices and input costs have been the biggest single reason behind growing numbers of farmers leaving the land.  As the trend continues, it is anticipated that there will be an exodus of farmers from the land in the near future due to economic failure, death or retirement.  In the next five years, $55-$60 billion of farmland will change hands.  In the dismal current farming economic environment, virtually no new young farmers will take the risk to buy this land, and very few existing farmers can afford to purchase either. 

With severely depressed competition for land translating into low selling prices, the dangerous potential exists to find ourselves in a position where the majority of the land in our country is owned by a small handful of individuals and/or large corporations.  This is not fear-mongering or sensationalist propaganda: it is the cold truth and should not only be alarming to our rural people, but to our urban cousins as well.  Would consumers rather buy food grown by 50,000 real farm families or just 5 large corporations?

FNA's mission of returning farming to profitability must no longer be only a dream: it is a reality that must be vigilantly pursued lest the face of family farming disappear within the next decade. 

Farmers of North America couldn't have come into existence at a better time and is more relevant now than ever:

To preserve the shape of society as we know it.

To ensure the security of our food supply.

To enhance the quality of life for today's farm families.