The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance is a non-profit organization headquartered at 8308 Sassman Road, Austin, Texas 78747, phone: (866) 687-6452 (toll free).   For more information, email info@farmandranchfreedom.org.

FARFA has members in 45 states.  We lobby in DC on behalf of our members, and provide support with state-level education and lobbying efforts.  We have state chapters in Tennessee and Louisiana.  Because of our lobbying work, we are organized as a 501(c)(4) organization.

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Our mission 

Independent farmers and ranchers need a voice.  For too long, our elected officials have listened to the huge industrial-agriculture companies, and made the laws and regulations to benefit them.  Independent farmers and ranchers were forgotten or, worse, targeted for ever-more burdensome regulations.  It is time to make a change! 

The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) is dedicated to representing non-corporate agriculture and animal owners, from homesteaders to horse owners to full-time ranchers.  FARFA’s work also serves those who are local foods consumers, people who care about protecting our traditional way of life, and other like-minded individuals. 

As set out in our charter, FARFA’s mission includes:

¨       To assure the independence of farmers, ranchers, livestock owners, and homesteaders in management, control, identification, and marketing of their products

¨       To assure that no additional burdens, costs, obligation, or responsibilities not essential to the public interest are imposed on them

¨       To assure that their real and personal property interests are protected against infringement absent an essential public interest

¨       To assure that the public has access to both the information and resources to choose the foods and products that they desire

¨       To promote local trade and assure that any activities by multinational agricultural entities contrary to this interest be resisted and eliminated

¨       To assure that the Constitution and laws of the United States are observed in strict accordance with their terms

¨       To assure that sustainable agriculture, the family farm, and domestic agricultural products be supported, encouraged, and enhanced.  

Who are we? 

Judith McGeary, the Executive Director of FARFA, is an attorney and small farmer.  She has a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University and her J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.  After a clerkship with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, she practiced as an attorney doing a combination of administrative law, litigation, and appeals.  She and her husband live on a small farm outside of Austin, with Quarter Horses, cows, sheep, and heritage-breed chickens and turkeys.  After seeing first-hand how government regulations benefit industrial agriculture at the expense of family farms, she became convinced that independent agriculture needed a voice.  She quit her legal practice to form FARFA in April 2006 after the Texas Animal Health Commission proposed regulations to make premises registration mandatory in Texas.  She and her husband are also active with Holistic Resource Management of Texas, the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, and the Weston A. Price Foundation.

FARFA Board of Directors: 

Deborah Davis has been a Texas Longhorn rancher since 1990, and manages a grassfed Texas Longhorn beef marketing company in Bandera, Texas. She is the current President and Registrar of the Cattlemen's Texas Longhorn Registry and has served as Secretary and Newsletter Editor for that organization. Mrs. Davis also served on the Board of the South Texas Longhorn Association and was its Newsletter Editor. She was Chairman of Artist Reservations with the Women's Art Guild of Laguna Gloria Museum in Austin, Texas, and is an active practitioner with Holistic Resource Management of Texas. She received museum docent training from the Elisabeth Ney Museum, Laguna Gloria Art Museum and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, and Texas Forums moderator training at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum.

Dr. Glen Dupree has been a licensed veterinarian since 1982.  After running a conventional veterinary practice for a number of years, Dr. Dupree studied homeopathy and is now a Certified Veterinary Homeopath through the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy.  Dr. Dupree is licensed in the states of Louisiana, New York, and Pennsylvania, and his practice currently consists of consultations in these states, in addition to telephone consultations to offer advice to care givers living outside those states. In addition, Dr. Dupree maintains an active teaching, writing, and speaking schedule and serves as a mentor on Dr. Pitcairn's Professional Veterinary Homeopathy web list. His writings have been published in the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Homeopathy Today, The Natural Horseman, The Louisiana Horsemans Guide, and IRiS Magazine.

Ron Freeman is a 53 year old fifth generation cattleman who has run a grass-based intensive grazing ranch in west central Illinois for over 30 years. He is a past director of a breed association and past president of a regional satellite. He has a B.A. in Psychology and Social Theory. He believes in the fundamental laws of Nature and models his ranch accordingly. He and his wife Jeanne have three children.

Mary Ann Lynch and her husband operate a small farm in McKinney, Texas.

Fred Walters is publisher of Acres U.S.A., a monthly magazine for commercial-scale organic and sustainable farmers. The magazine is based in Austin, Texas and has readers worldwide.

Jennifer Williams grew up in Missouri where her family kept a few cows as "pets." When she discovered horses, she begged her parents for one until they finally relented and let her buy her great uncle's old farm horse - ever since then horses have been a major part of Jennifer's life. She attended Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State) where she received a BS in Psychology and minor in equine science. At Texas A&M she received a MS and PhD in Animal Science, specializing in equine behavior, learning, and welfare. Jennifer is a published author with dozens of articles to her credit, and she is currently working on several books. She is also President of Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving and preserving the lives of equines throughout Texas and Arkansas.