[OKC] FW: Farm Foreclosures?

[Shauna Struby]

Fyi - for your consideration

 

From: Sarah Alexander, Food & Water Watch
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Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:06 PM
To: sstruby at cox.net
Subject: Farm Foreclosures?

 

 
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Tell the Senate to Include Farms in the Foreclosure Relief Legislation
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Dear shauna,


Banks that receive additional taxpayer money should be required to show some
flexibility to rework farm loans during this economic crisis.

 
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amendment.

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Big banks that are taking taxpayer money are trying to short-change farmers.
The banks are too big to fail, but they view these farms as too small to
save.  Can
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so farms can keep operating? 

Farmers often risk it all to be able to keep farming.  They often have to
bet their farmhouses in order to get the needed credit to plant crops each
spring.  Banks are not taking the time to work with farmers who are in
trouble because of the economic crisis, which could drive more farms into
foreclosure. 

Tomorrow, the Senate will debate legislation (the Helping Families Save
their Homes Act of 2009, S.896) to help troubled homeowners restructure
their mortgages to save their homes, but most family farmers who face
foreclosures would not be protected by the proposal because their farmhouses
are part of farm loans and not home mortgages. An amendment offered by
Senators Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) (Senate
Amendment S.A.1032) would extend similar loan protections to farmers.  This
common-sense amendment will help farmers stay in their homes and on their
farms.

Can you contact your Senators TODAY and urge them to support the
Feingold-Gillibrand amendment to the foreclosure bill?

 
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Thanks for taking action,

Sarah, Noelle, Alex and the Food Team
Food & Water Watch
goodfood(at)fwwatch.org

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