Audit trail exercises for crops
Organic inspectors are required to conduct at least one traceback and one mass balance audit trail exercise at each annual inspection. The audit trail evaluates your recordkeeping system as well...
Organic crop recordkeeping templates
Getting started with recordkeeping can be a big task. In addition to setting up how you want to organize your records, having good templates that cover all of the necessary …...
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 …...
A Crop with History
Hemp has been a plant shrouded in myth, mystique and misinformation for decades, as federal prohibition in the United States kept it out of farm fields and out of mind. …...
Lessons Learned Series: Organic Recordkeeping for a Crop Audit
The records of a certified organic farm’s operations and activities demonstrate where promise and practice meet for an inspector and certifier. An annual mandatory inspection examines the...
Addressing labor costs on specialty crop farms
Labor costs on specialty crop farms are three times as much (up to 39%) of their total cash expenses than the average for all U.S. farms according to a recent …...
GOTS Certification Update (11/22)
GOTS Newsletter: We recommend you sign up for the GOTS Newsletter to be notified of current information from GOTS. Click here to visit the GOTS website and fill out the …...
OSP (Crop)
The Organic System Plan (OSP) is your operation’s blueprint for planned organic production practices. Need to update your OSP? Blank forms for your crop OSP are below. Check out answers...
Conservation Buffers in Organic Systems: Nevada Implementation Guide
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance in installing practices for use as buffers in organic production systems in order to meet the National Organic Program (NOP) regulations. …...
Reduced Tillage in Organic Specialty Crop Systems
This webinar was presented in partnership with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and focuses on research aimed at methods to improve soil health by minimizing tillage in...