National Farmers Organization

The National Farmers Organization (NFO) is a producer movement founded in the United States in 1955, by farmers, especially younger farmers with mortgages, frustrated by too often receiving crop and produce prices that produced a living that paid less than the minimum wage, and could not even cover the cost of seed, fertilizer, land, etc. This was despite the many hours that was devoted by their entire family (including the farm children) who often worked for free. This was despite mortgages they had to be pay even in years of drought, hail or other crop failure. It was despite too high injury rates related to lifting and too high mortality rates due to working with heavy, sharp equipment.