代表40多个州农村团体的一个团体警告说，取代北美自由贸易协定(北美自由贸易协定)的协议对小农场主没有什么好处，而且会对消费者产生负面影响。
上周，白宫达成了协议众议院民主党用美国-墨西哥-加拿大协议取代了25年前的北美自由贸易协定。)
该法案仍需通过各国立法机构，但最早可能在本周在国会进行表决。
三个北美国家的代表在墨西哥签署了协议，促使唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布胜利，他推特这将是“美国有史以来最好、最重要的贸易协议”。
在这张图片中，大豆是在明尼苏达州沃辛顿附近的一个农场收获的。全国家庭农场联盟批评了UMSCA协议，该协议更新了北美自由贸易协定，并可能在今年由国会进行表决。
“对每个人都有好处——农民、制造商、能源、工会——巨大的支持，”总统补充道，他在2016年的竞选中将更新北美自由贸易协定作为一项关键政策。
在20世纪70年代与特朗普达成一致的罕见时刻正在进行的弹劾调查，众议院议长南希·佩洛西说该法案是“美国工人的胜利”
然而，新协议让代表全国50，000个小农场主和牧场主以及超过400，000人的全国家庭农场联盟(NFFC)感到沮丧。
NFFC总统吉姆·古德曼说，美国农业部门的利益“已经被美国农业部门大大高估了”
在他看来，这笔交易错过了解决独立家庭农民产品低价的机会。
“气候变化没有被提及，新条约对遏制最初北美自由贸易协定中的环境破坏毫无帮助，”他在一份声明中说新闻周刊。
“NFFC乳制品生产商不支持向加拿大或墨西哥市场倾销过多的美国牛奶，因为这将迫使这些国家的家庭奶农停业。
“相反，我们呼吁国会支持乳制品供应管理，为这三个国家的农民提供公平的价格。”
蒙大拿州格伦迪维的生产商德纳霍夫(Dena Hoff)和NFFC成员团体北方平原资源委员会(Northern Plains Resource Council)表示，UMSCA没有恢复牛肉、猪肉和乳制品的“原产国”标签，这使得美国农民更难与更廉价的进口产品竞争。
“消费者有权知道他们的肉来自哪里，牧场主有权进入一个诚实的市场，”她在一份声明中说新闻周刊。
“这项协议不支持我们的生产者，”她说，并补充道，“它背叛了美国的牧场主、消费者和我们的农村社区。”
新闻周刊已经联系白宫，要求对NFFC的声明做出反应。
然而，这项民主党和共和党争论了一年多的协议确实得到了该组织的支持农民促进自由贸易组织该公司表示，这将保证他们最接近和最重要的市场将“免于关税和繁文缛节”。
“这对美国农民来说是个好消息，也是一种解脱。现在是时候通过该法案了，否则政治会碍事，”它说。
如果交易获得通过，可能会给特朗普提振，谁正面临越来越少的支持因为他参加2020年竞选时的贸易战。
TRUMP'S NEW TRADE DEAL UMSCA WAS 'OVERSOLD' AND WILL HURT SMALLER FARMERS, SAYS RURAL COALITION
The deal replacing the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) offers little for smaller farmers and will negatively impact consumers, a group representing rural groups in over 40 states has warned.
Last week, the White House reached an agreement with House Democrats to replace the 25-year-old NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA.)
It still has to pass through the countries' legislatures but could be voted on in Congress as early as this week.
Representatives from the three North American countries signed the pact in Mexico, prompting President Donald Trump to declare victory, and he tweeted that it would be "the best and most important trade deal ever made by the USA.
Soybeans are harvested on a farm near near Worthington, Minnesota, in this illustrative image. The National Family Farm Coalition has criticized the UMSCA deal, which updates NAFTA and could be voted on by Congress this year.
"Good for everybody—Farmers, Manufacturers, Energy, Unions—tremendous support," added the president, who had made updating NAFTA a key policy during the 2016 election campaign.
In a rare moment of agreement with Trump amid the ongoing impeachment inquiry, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the bill was "a victory for America's workers."
However, the new deal has dismayed the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) representing 50,000 smaller farmers and ranchers, and over 400,000 people in the fishing industry across the country.
NFFC president Jim Goodman said that the benefits of USMCA "have been greatly oversold to the U.S. farm sector."
In his view, the deal missed the chance to address low prices for products by independent family farmers.
"Climate change is not mentioned and the new treaty does nothing to curb the environmental damage that was part of the original NAFTA," he said in a statement to Newsweek.
"NFFC dairy producers do not support dumping excess U.S. milk on the Canadian or Mexican markets, as that will force family dairy farmers out of business in those countries.
"We instead call on Congress to support dairy supply management to deliver fair prices to farmers in all three countries."
Dena Hoff, producer from Glendive, Montana, with NFFC member group Northern Plains Resource Council, said that UMSCA does not reinstate "country of origin" labeling for beef, pork, and dairy products, thus making it harder for U.S. farmers to compete against cheaper imports.
"Consumers deserve the right to know where their meat is from, and ranchers deserve the right to an honest market," she said, in a statement to Newsweek.
"This agreement doesn't support our producers," she stated, adding that "it betrays American ranchers, consumers, and our rural communities."
Newsweek has contacted the White House for reaction to the NFFC's statement.
However the deal, which Democrats and Republicans argued over for more than a year, does have the backing of the group Farmers for Free Trade, which said it would guarantee that their closest and most important markets, would be "free from tariffs and red tape."
"This is welcome news and a relief for American farmers. Now it's time to get the bill passed before politics can get in the way," it said.
If the deal is passed, it could offer a boost to Trump, who was facing waning support in the rural sector due to his trade wars, as he goes into the 2020 election campaign.
