Issues

Once each year, members identify and prioritize issues for MIFFS. Member interests include:

• New production and processing technologies
• Farm and farmer profitability
• Food affordability, quality, safety, nutrition, availability and access
• Value-added opportunities
• Direct marketing and value chains
• Farmland preservation
• Rural disintegration
• The next farming generation
• Agricultural education
• Local (Michigan) food
• Urban agriculture
• Leadership for greater economic, environmental, and social well-being in agriculture.