A Few More Acres Farm is a small family farm in Maine where animals are raised with care, respect and an understanding that good farming depends on balance — between land, animal husbandry and community trust. Like many farms that work closely with animals every day, we rely on state and local laws that support humane treatment, responsible management and transparency for our customers. 

We are taking a stand against two dangerous bills in Congress: the Save Our Bacon Act (H.R.4673) and the Food Protection and Farm Security Act (S.1326). These bills would take decision-making power away from states and replace it with a federal preemption that favors large, industrialized operations. Farming practices like ours depend on location, consumer demand and good animal husbandry. State laws allow that flexibility and help level the playing field for independent farms.

The proposed legislation would do the opposite. By repealing existing state protections and blocking future ones, it would lower standards across the board while giving corporate agribusiness an even stronger foothold. Removing state-level support would push many family farms out of business and further concentrate agriculture.

Family farms are deeply connected to their communities; when they disappear, so do local food access, rural jobs and consumer choice. Policies that weaken state authority threaten the diversity and resilience of our food system.

We encourage Sens. Collins and King and Rep. Jared Golden to stand with family farms that depend on locally driven agricultural laws to continue farming responsibly and stop these two bills from ever becoming law.

Cindi LeMay
Bowerbank