Keep Michigan agriculture local
Family farms
El-Sayed supports redirecting farm subsidies toward family farms, specialty crops, and diversified agriculture.
We don’t want to see agriculture be corporatized.
WHAT HE HAS SAID
- Proposes capping individual subsidy payments at $250,000 per year and redirecting dollars toward specialty crops, diversified agriculture, and regenerative farming.
- Supports targeted, negotiated trade protections for Michigan specialty crops rather than blanket tariffs that raise farmers’ costs and invite retaliation.
- Backs reforming the H-2A guest-worker program through the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, with pathways to legal status for immigrant farmworkers.
- Champions a federal right-to-repair law for farm equipment.
Primary sources
- Read the campaign position — Abdul for U.S. Senate
Last reviewed 2026-08-19.