Give us Your Comments on the EQIP Organic Initiative
Complete our Short Survey Today
Last spring, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) created a special initiative as a part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. This initiative, called the Organic Initiative, provides financial and technical assistance to agriculture producers who want to improve their organic operations or transition land to organic production.
Now that sign-up for the program is over, OFRF is collecting feedback from farmers on the EQIP Organic Initiative. We want to hear from all farmers, not just those who have an EQIP Organic Initiative contract. We want to hear from conventional and organic producers; from producers who applied to the Organic Initiative and those who didn’t. Whether or not you received a contract through the EQIP Organic Initiative, please help us make it better by providing your feedback on this short survey.
Click here to fill out our survey on the 2009 EQIP Organic Initiative.
OFRF will use the feedback on the 2009 Organic Initiative to provide recommendations to NRCS to make the 2010 Initiative work better for farmers. This survey is only the first step in gathering farmer feedback on the initiative. OFRF will continue to facilitate growers’ feedback to NRCS in order to improve the program in the future.
In order for us to get data to NRCS in time to affect the 2010 Organic Initiative, this survey will only be available until November 10. Please fill it out today.
Click here to fill out our survey on the 2009 EQIP Organic Initiative.
If you have any questions, please contact Tracy Lerman, OFRF Policy Organizer at (831) 426-6606 x 108 or tracy@ofrf.org
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