RUSLE2 in Organic Systems
This webinar provides guidance on how soil loss should be calculated by selecting appropriate tillage operations, incorporating manure and compost applications, planning in fields with a diversity of...
Mitigating Soil Disturbance in Organic Systems
This webinar was presented in partnership with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The video recording coversproduction practices that can offset the negative impacts of tillage...
Pollinator Plantings in Organic Pastures
This webinar investigates how organic pasture systems have the potential to do much more than just feed livestock. If managed properly, pastures and rangeland can include many forbs (herbaceous...
Tillage Timing and Nitrogen Loss on Organic Farms
In a study that spanned five years, Penn State researchers conducted intensive nitrogen monitoring in four different cropping systems designed to allow comparisons of soil nitrogen levels over time...
Importing and Exporting Products from the U.S.
Are you exporting organic products internationally? Do you purchase products from other countries? This webinar provides an overview of export requirements and equivalency agreements with Canada,...
Investing in Organic Production: Economics of Transition
Transitioning to organic requires upfront investments in soil building and organic weed management. Organic price premiums may cover some of these initial expenditures, but the returns on these...
Risky Business: Assessing Areas of Risk for Current and Potential Organic Operations
Risks are threats, but can also be opportunities in life and business. During this webinar we cover topics to help organic operations make strides in managing various potential risks. The …...
Membership Spotlight: Dyer Family Organic Farm
People want (and need) to be connected to something important. Seth Godin describes this notion as something that people have wanted forever. For Richard and Diana Dyer of Dyer Family …...
Food as Social Justice
Maggots were not on the menu, but have allegedly been among the fare at more than half a dozen U.S. prisons served by the Aramark corporation over the past five …...
Organic Cotton Helps Indian Farmers Out of GM Cotton Trap
Batchat is a tiny village in the eastern Indian state of Orissa. From the district headquarters of Bhawanipatna, it takes about two hours by car on single-lane roads to the …...