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OFRF Announces Major New Funding
for Organic Research and Education Grants
Thanks to a major new partnership with Stretch Island Fruit Company, OFRF will invest $450,000 in organic fruit projects over three years. The next deadline for grant applications is July 15, 2008. More...
OFRF now
offers educational and outreach grants.
Visit the following links for our 2008 application guidelines for our education and outreach grants and
research grants programs.
The 2007 Farm Bill
Right now, development of the 2007 Farm Bill
is (still...) in full swing. A coordinated strategy for scaling-up organic agricultural
research, outreach and development should provide a mixture of funding
methods and programs to gradually achieve our "fair share"
spending total of approximately $120 million/year.
Farm Bill Policy Alerts and Updates
April 28, 2008 - Farm Bill Update: Farm Bill Completion Looks Possible; Wins for Organic Ag In Sight!
Last week, the future of the 2007 Farm Bill felt very uncertain as House and Senate negotiators seemed unable to work out differences on several key provisions. The White House called for a year or longer extension of the current law while threatening a veto of the bill if it included tax increases or lacked commodity payment cuts. After several previous extensions to the current law, another one-week extension passed last Friday, making the new deadline May 2, 2008. More...
OFAN-sponsored Farmer Fly-ins have helped organic farmers get their message before Congress.
In 2007, 21 farmers participated. Here, OFRF Board Member Francis Thicke testifies
in support of organic and sustainable research programs. |
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SPECIAL! View video
footage of Mark Lipson's testimony in April 2007 before the
newly formed House Agriculture Subcommittee on Horticulture and
Organic Agriculture. This was the first-ever hearing in the House
of Representatives devoted exclusively to organic food and farming.
Visit our Federal
Legislation and Action pages
for more information and resources about the 2007 Farm Bill.
Special Events
Community
Now available! Listen to audio archives of keynote addresses from the Organic Summit, June 2007, presented by the Leopold Center's Dr. Fred Kirschenmann (featured in Information Bulletin No. 15) and Whole Foods Market Co-President Walter Robb.
View the distribution
of certified organic operations from the USDA National
Organic Program's most recent (2006) organic producer list. |
Publications
April 30, 2008
SCOAR Bulletin No. 19
Highlights: New organic programs at University of Minnesota; WSU puts organic ag certificate online; Prepare Fall USDA-IOP grant proposals now!; ARS helps organic peanut growers in Georgia; OSU releases guide to organic transitioning and more...
Download OFRF's Information Bulletin No. 15, Fall 2007
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Questions about organic?
Visit Organic FAQs,
OFRF's fact sheet in response to frequently asked questions
about organic food and farming. |
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Organic Research Summaries
The 1st Organic Research Symposium was co-hosted by OFRF and MOSES Feb. 21-23, in conjunction with The Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference. The full set of research summaries is available here [pdf file, 67 pp, 2.07 mb].
OFRF staff and board members will be attending many additional conferences in early 2008. To find out where we'll be, please visit our calendar.
Want to stay informed about organic agriculture policy in Congress
and at USDA? If so, join OFRF's
Organic Farmers
Action Network to receive organic policy alerts and updates.
Urge your U.S. Representative to join
the Organic Caucus
The Congressional
Organic Caucus is a bipartisan committee in
the U.S. House of Representatives that promotes sound policies that
advance organic production and marketing.
GMO News
Research conducted by University of Arizona entomologists documents cotton bollworm resistance to Bt-cotton, the first reported case of insect resistance to GM crops.
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