1. Remove the existing minimum-wage exemption for agricultural workers and end the practice of paying workers
by the piece; and
2. Support stronger agricultural-worker protections, including regulating work hours, demanding fair wages,
eliminating child labor, ensuring adequate housing for migrant workers, and providing sanitary facilities in the
field; and
3. Support funding and prioritization of local farming, including community-supported agriculture (CSAs) and
infrastructure to bring products to market; and
4. Support incentives for transitioning to locally sustainable agricultural practices, soil restoration, agricultural water
conservation, and retention of lands for regenerative agricultural production and ranching; and
5. Ban the use of neonicotinoids (synthetic pesticides), which are neurotoxic to humans and detrimental to bees and
pollinators on which we depend for our food supply; and
6. Support efforts to preserve and protect New Mexico’s traditional heritage livestock and varieties of heirloom
seeds; and
7. Support individual property owners’ abilities to control their agricultural lands and local water rights for personal
and agricultural use to the extent that it does not conflict with the need to have a sustainable community; and
8. Compel the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
as a contaminant; and
9. Compel the Department of Defense (DoD) to clean up PFAS chemical contamination, which originated on
military bases, and to provide compensation and remedies for affected water supplies, livestock, and poisoned
individuals; and
10. Support protecting farmers from lawsuits by companies that produce patented genetically modified seeds, when
the local farmers’ crops are corrupted or cross-pollinated from nearby company fields; and
11. Support individuals and communities in developing yard and community gardens through supportive land-use
policies and zoning; and
12. Support regenerative farming practices that protect against drought, mitigate the effects of climate change,
increase biodiversity, enrich soils, create living-wage jobs, and improve watersheds; and