Editing Farmer (section)

==Farming organizations==
[[File:American bee journal (1914) (17930911149).jpg|thumb|Meeting of the Eastern Illinois Beekeepers Association, 1914]]
Farmers are often members of local, regional, or national farmers' unions or agricultural producers' organizations and can exert significant political influence. The [[National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry|Grange]] movement in the United States was effective in advancing farmers' agendas, especially against railroad and agribusiness interests early in the 20th century. The [[FNSEA]] is very politically active in France, especially pertaining to [[genetically modified food]]. Agricultural producers, both small and large, are represented globally by the [[International Federation of Agricultural Producers]] (IFAP), representing over 600 million farmers through 120 national farmers' unions in 79 countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifap.org/en/about/aboutifap.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807165914/http://www.ifap.org/en/about/aboutifap.html|url-status=dead|title=About the International Federation of Agricultural Producers|archive-date=August 7, 2008}}</ref>

===Youth farming organizations===
[[File:Farming is a public service shirt.jpg|thumb|'Farming is a public service' shirt]]

There are many organizations that are targeted at teaching young people how to farm and advancing the knowledge and benefits of [[sustainable agriculture]]. 
* [[4-H]] was started in 1902 and is a U.S.-based network that has approximately 6.5 million members, ages 5 to 21 years old, and is administered by the [[National Institute of Food and Agriculture]] of the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA). 
* The [[National FFA Organization]] (formerly known as Future Farmers of America) was founded in 1925 and is specifically focused on providing agriculture education for middle and high school students. 
* Rural Youth Europe is a non-governmental organization for European youths to create awareness of rural environmental and agriculture issues, it was started in 1957 and the headquarters is in [[Helsinki]], Finland. The group is active in 17 countries with over 500,000 participants.