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Guide for Organic Processors
This publication serves as a guide for organic operators and explains the USDA organic regulations that are relevant to those who wish to process their organic crops and label or sell the product as...
USDA’s Organic Resource Guide
In addition to setting the standards for U.S. organic products, USDA supports organic agriculture in all of its agencies. USDA offers a wide variety of funding opportunities, including conservation...
Farmers’ Guide to Organic Contracts
This new resource for the organic community can help organic farmers evaluate, negotiate, and manage contract agreements with buyers of organic farm...
Organic Literacy Initiative
The Organic Literacy Initiative is designed to help connect current and prospective organic farmers, ranchers, and processors with appropriate USDA resources. This package of training and outreach...
“Shades of Green” User’s Manual — Guide and Documentation for a Daily Farm Management System Calculator
The Organic Center released the Shades of Green (SOG) calculator, a method for using credible data to inform the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to produce milk, cheese, butter, and...
Organic Practice Guide
A guide for soil management techniques, strategies and inputs from the Organic Materials Review Institute. Covers soil fertility management, nutrient management, pest, disease and weed management,...
USDA Guide to US Organic Marketing Laws and Regulations
A compiled guide of links to federal laws and regulations, state laws and regulations, certification programs, background documents, food safety resources, and a complete index to agencies,...
Biodiversity Conservation: An Organic Farmers Guide
The guide provides farmers with core biodiversity principles for agriculture, outlines practices for growers to maintain biodiversity on farms, provides tools to evaluate progress of biodiversity...
Transitioning to Organic Production
This publication lays out many promising conversion strategies, covering typical organic farming production practices, innovative marketing ideas and federal standards for certified organic crop...