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Cover Crop Economics: Opportunities to Improve Your Bottom Line in Row Crops
Farmers around the country are planting cover crops on millions of acres to protect and improve the soil, and the more that farmers use cover crops, the more they value this conservation practice....
Commingling and contamination prevention
All certified organic operations “must implement measures necessary to prevent the commingling of organic and non-organic products and protect organic products from contact with prohibited...
Organic Cover Cropping and Intercropping
This webinar covers using cover crops in organic cropping systems, incorporating winter and summer cover crops into a rotation, and matching cover crops to specific production and conservation...
Farms with organic and non-organic crops
Farmers are eligible to produce both organic and non-organic crops on their operation. However, it is critical that you are able to clearly demonstrate and document that no commingling or...
Activities covered by crop certification
Your organic crop certification covers simple processing and handling of on-farm produced crops. Farms that produce a finished multi-ingredient processed product using more than organic agricultural...
Add a new species of livestock
Adding a new species requires a review and updates, when appropriate, of your Organic System Plan (OSP) to accurately reflect your livestock operation’s activities. Adding avian species Adding...
Requirements
Your recordkeeping system demonstrates where promise and practice meet for compliance. The annual inspection reviews every aspect — from weed management to contamination prevention — of organic...
Add crop land to my certification
To add land to an existing certificate, the following is required: Completion of a C2 form (and possibly a land transfer form) Parcel identification Parcel geographic location (address, township,...
Crop audit
Organic inspectors are required to conduct at least one complete audit trail exercise at each inspection. The audit trail evaluates your recordkeeping system as well as activities for traceability...
Lessons Learned: Nutrient Management
Sauvie Island Organics is a 25-acre fresh vegetable farm – certified by Oregon Tilth since 2009 – located 15 miles from the hubbub of downtown Portland. Farm manager Scott Latham and the farm...