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The Joseph Farm PLan

Overview

The Joseph Act, as part of the New Day Deal, is a comprehensive agricultural transformation strategy to make the United States the world’s strongest and most resilient agricultural superpower. At present, China leads with an agricultural gross production value (GPV) of $1.69 trillion, India follows with $554 billion, and the U.S. ranks third at only $460 billion. In a time of growing instability and global uncertainty, it is unacceptable for the United States to fall behind in food production, food security, or farmer support.

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The largest portion of the Joseph Plan is to build America a decentralized national food security system. Every town in the United States will be equipped with grain reserves, emergency water storage, and solar-powered energy backups. These facilities will serve as defense infrastructure in case of global war, market collapse, or another Great Depression. The Joseph Plan is not only about growing food — it's about safeguarding survival.

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This plan empowers American farmers, revitalizes the domestic ag economy, and defends the food sovereignty of the nation. It introduces structural reforms in pricing, labor, land use, and processing to build prosperity across the entire food system.

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Section I: National Town-Based Grain, Water, and Energy Reserves

To prevent widespread hunger in the event of another world war or economic collapse, the United States will develop a permanent infrastructure of community-scale food and energy security.

  • Build federally funded grain silos and storage hubs in every U.S. town capable of storing six months of staple crops for the local population.

  • Construct emergency clean water reserves in strategic rural and urban locations.

  • Install solar-powered microgrids and emergency backup systems at each grain reserve facility to maintain refrigeration, communications, and equipment in any grid failure.

  • Partner with local farmers and cooperatives to stock, rotate, and manage inventory.

  • Coordinate with FEMA and the Department of Defense to integrate local reserves into a National Strategic Food Defense Grid.

Result: Every American town becomes disaster-resilient and starvation-proof. The nation becomes immune to famine from war, weather, or economic collapse.

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Section II: Fair Pricing and Market Accountability

Farmers in the U.S. are still being paid prices equal to or less than what they received in the early 1990s—despite sharp increases in fuel, labor, land, fertilizer, and equipment costs. For example, cotton prices have barely moved in 30 years, while equipment manufacturers like John Deere continue to charge record-high prices.

To restore economic fairness:

  • Enact a Farm Income Parity Act that ties pricing to inflation-adjusted benchmarks from the 2012 farm bill.

  • Regulate processors and mega-buyers that underpay growers while posting record profits.

  • Launch a National Ag Pricing Board to audit commodity pricing schemes and enforce transparent, farmer-favorable floor pricing.

Result: Producers receive fair, inflation-adjusted compensation that keeps up with modern input costs.

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Section III: Agricultural Labor, Equipment, and Storage Expansion

  • Expand advanced machinery access, water infrastructure, and farm energy capacity.

  • Modernize the H-2A visa program to create an affordable, reliable, and legal agricultural workforce.

  • Launch a national farm equipment loan program to reduce farmer debt and dependency on overpriced private leases.

  • Fund farm-based storage expansion to increase national grain and crop reserves.

Result: American farmers are equipped to double or triple output with predictable labor and strategic storage infrastructure.

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Section IV: Revitalizing U.S. Agricultural Processing

  • Provide tax credits and grants to modernize cotton gins, peanut plants, mills, and elevators.

  • Make H-2A visa labor accessible to ag processing facilities.

  • Incentivize co-op ownership models between farmers and processors to ensure price sharing and value retention.

  • Tie processor tax incentives to their commitment to pay parity prices to growers.

Result: Processors and farmers are aligned for mutual growth, export readiness, and domestic reliability.

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Section V: National Food Security and Public Land Strategy

  • Increase U.S. national grain reserve capacity by 200%.

  • Open 1,000,000 acres of public land for long-term lease to American farmers only.

  • Prohibit foreign adversaries from buying U.S. farmland, food processing plants, or water rights.

Result: America achieves sovereign control over its agricultural production and reserves.

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Section VI: SNAP Reform and Farm Sovereignty Fund

  • Review and eliminate SNAP expansions not directly tied to food insecurity or nutritional outcomes.

  • Reallocate a portion of SNAP funds into a Farm Sovereignty Fund, which:

    • Stabilizes commodity prices during disasters or market shocks

    • Supports small farmers in high-cost seasons

    • Incentivizes local food supply chains

Result: Social nutrition funding supports both vulnerable Americans and the domestic farmers who feed them.

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Section VII: Youth, Family, and Rural Renewal

  • Allow farm children two weeks of school leave during planting and harvest, plus two weeks for federally declared disasters.

  • Integrate agriculture education into all rural K-12 systems.

  • Offer land grants and low-interest loans to new farmers and veterans.

Result: A new generation of American farm operators is created and sustained.

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Section VIII: America’s Path to Agricultural Superpower Status

  • Scale high-efficiency farming with AI, robotics, drones, and soil tech

  • Launch an “Ag Innovation Act” to fund USDA and CRISPR-backed climate-resilient seed research

  • Build a national “Grown in the USA” export brand tied to clean, traceable food

  • Develop bilateral food trade with Africa, South Asia, and Latin America

  • Establish a permanent national food sovereignty strategy with input stockpiles and processor investment

Result: The U.S. outproduces China on less land, with better labor conditions and food quality.

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Conclusion: Agricultural Power, Economic Justice, National Security

The Joseph Plan recognizes that food production is not just economic policy—it is national defense. This plan ends the $50 billion agricultural trade deficit, restores dignity to farming families, reins in predatory corporate practices, and makes America the most secure and influential food-producing nation in the world.

The Joseph Plan delivers prosperity to farmers, stability to rural families, and leadership to the United States.

 

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