The AEA is a national, member driven community dedicated to developing structural support and visionary leadership for the emu industry through actions that develop public awareness of emu products and develop means to advance the growing emu industry. The American Emu Association represents an alternative agriculture industry, dominated by the small farmer, who is devoted to humane and environmentally positive practices that will produce beneficial products for society.

The emu has become one of the most unique elements of alternative agriculture in the United States. The Kansas emu industry is dominated by the small farmer, who is devoted to humane and environmentally positive practices that will produce beneficial emu products to enhance all of our lives.