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• New Guidelines for Organic Dairy

  The organic milk market is competitive, and organic dairy producers need information to understand their options when selling organic milk. Farmers’ Legal ...

• Organic in the Farm Bill

  Report from Mark Lipson, Organic Farming Research Foundation

• Sticker Shock in the Organic Aisles

  Prices are rising for organic food, which typically costs 20 percent to 100 percent more than a conventional counterpart.

• Standing Water

  Feed, floods and folly. A harrowing season on Menzel Farm.

• Standing Water

  Feed, floods and folly. A harrowing season on Menzel Farm.

• 2007 Organic Field Day Series Review

  Here's a report of the organic field days held last year, with links to photo albums containing a good collection of pics taken at each of the four events.

• Quackgrass Management Resources

  This information was compiled to provide background information on Quackgrass (Elytrigia repens) and its management in sustainable and organic ag production ...

• Canada Thistle Management Resources

  This resource list was compiled to provide background information on Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense) and its management in sustainable and organic ag ...

• 2007 Organic Field Day Series Review

  Here's a report of the organic field days held last year, with links to photo albums containing a good collection of pics taken at each of the four events.

• Organic Farmer's Agency for Relationship Marketing
• Market Maker

  An interactive mapping system that locates businesses and markets of agricultural products in Illinois, providing an important link between producers and ...

• What impact will biofuels have on organic markets?

  By Corinne Alexander, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

• Scientific Findings on Organic Ag

  What has the scientific community discovered about the quality, nutritional characteristics and production practices used in organic agriculture? Use the menu ...

• Benefits to the Environment

  Climate change, water quality, soil health, biodiversity -- organic agriculture delivers the goods.

• Is Organic Productive Enough?

  Critics often claim organic agriculture isn't productive enough to feed the world. It's true farmers converting to organic often experience a yield drop, but ...

• The Rodale Insitute

  The Rodale Institute works with people worldwide to achieve a regenerative food system that renews environmental and human health working with the philosophy ...

• The Organic Center

  Promote a new found understanding of the health and other benefits of organic foods and production through a comprehensive set of credible, peer-reviewed ...

• The Cornucopia Institute

  The Cornucopia Institute is dedicated to the fight for economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Through research, advocacy, and economic ...