January 8, 2026

Media Contact

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Contact: Hannah Esqueda, 559-367-7158, hannahe@sraproject.org

Farm Aid Contact: Camille Jewell, cjewell@vancomm.com, 202-248-5460

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project Receives Year-End Grant From Farm Aid

Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) is proud to announce that it has received $18,000 from Farm Aid to support ongoing work with rural residents, independent farmers and ranchers, and community groups across the United States. 

Through a blend of education, issue advocacy, and community organizing, SRAP works to protect residents’ rights to clean water, air, and soil and to a healthy, just, and vibrant food future.

Farm Aid distributed more than $1.3 million in grant funding in 2025. The organization prioritized grant proposals from organizations that focus on four priority issue areas: racial equity; farmer-led solutions to climate change; stopping the growth of industrial agriculture and corporate power; and providing support for farmers experiencing crisis and farm stress.  

“These organizations are the heart of the farm movement, with family farmers at the center of their work and leadership. We are so proud and grateful to stand with them,” said Farm Aid President and Founder Willie Nelson. “Like Farm Aid, many of these folks have been working since the 1980s to be crucial sources of strength for farmers and rural communities. This is especially important as farmers once again face trying times reminiscent of the crisis that gave rise to Farm Aid and the movement of which we’re a part.”

Farm Aid’s grantmaking is one aspect of its work to keep family farmers on the land, growing good food for all. For a complete listing of Farm Aid’s 2025 grant recipients, visit farmaid.org/2025grants.

About Socially Responsible Agriculture Project

For more than 20 years, SRAP has served as a mobilizing force to help communities protect themselves from the damages caused by industrial livestock operations and to advocate for a food system built on regenerative practices, justice, democracy, and resilience. Learn more at sraproject.org.

About Farm Aid

Farm Aid’s mission is to build a vibrant, family farm-centered system of agriculture in America. Farm Aid artists and board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, and Margo Price host an annual festival to raise funds to support Farm Aid’s work with family farmers and to inspire people to choose family farm food. For 40 years, Farm Aid, with the support of the artists who contribute their performances each year, has raised more than $85 million to support programs that help farmers thrive, expand the reach of the Good Food Movement, take action to change the dominant system of industrial agriculture and promote food from family farms.