By Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director
By Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director
How do we improve our practices and make certified operations accountable?
By Julia Barton, Farmer Services Director, Organic Farmers Association
By Elizabeth Tobey, Organic Farming Research Foundation
By Mary-Howell Martens, Lakeview Organic Grain, Penn Yan, NY
By Liz Bawden, NODPA Board member and Past President and Co-President
Compiled and written by Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director
By Tamara Scully, NODPA News contributing writer
By Christie Badger, Independent Organic Inspector & Consultant
By Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director
By Kirk Arnold NODPA Board Co-President
By Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director
By Tamara Scully, NODPA News contributing writer
By Liz Bawden, NODPA Board Co-President
How a dairy producer used Westfalia AS/RS to streamline processes in two locations.
Compiled by Ed Maltby from reports by National Organic Coalition and Organic Trade Association
Notes and remarks that relate to organic dairy from the Fall NOSB meeting courtesy of the National Organic Coalition
By Harriet Behar, Sweet Springs Farm and Jo Ann Baumgartner, Wild Farm Alliance
BY Jeanne Merrill and Chris Schreiner, Opinion Contributors, THE HILL
Building Sustainable Farms, Ranches and Communities
By Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director
By Liz Bawden, NODPA Board Co-President
By Kirk Arnold, NODPA Co-President
By Brad Heins, Kirsten Sharpe, Eric Buchanan, and Mike Reese Originally appeared in Hoard’s Dairyman, and reprinted with permission.
Compiled by Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director
Plus a COVID-19 Resource Guide for Farmers
By Jason Flatt, This article first appeared on the Food Tank website, https://foodtank.com/ and is reprinted with permission
By Liz Bawden, NODPA Board President
By Patty Lovera, OFA Policy Director
From the USDA Organic Insider
Adapted from an article by Sustainable Food News, March 13, 2020
Anu Rangarajan, Director of the Cornell Small Farms Program
Glenda M. Pereira, Kirsten T. Sharpe and Bradley J. Heins, WROC, University of Minnesota
Analysis by the National Organic Coalition (NOC)
Former Food and Water Watch Program Director Will Lead Organic Policy Advocacy Effort
Kate Kellman, Digital Marketing Coordinator, Land For Good and Jae Silverman, MA Field Agent, Land For Good
Compiled by Ed Maltby from information supplied by Abby Youngblood and Christie Badger from the National Organic Coalition
Applications are due by December 2, 2019
By Lisa Held, Civil Eats, August 13, 2019
Perspectives from Beyond Pesticides and the Cornucopia Institute
In Memoriam by Fred Magdoff, Emeritus Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Vermont
By Jen Miller, Farmer Services Director, Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA VT)
By John Bobbe. First printed in Milkweed, May 2019; reprinted with permission from the author
September 26 & 27, 2019, Theodore’s Restaurant, 3231 Seneca Turnpike, Canastota, NY
By Adam Diamond, NODPA Contributing Writer
January 2019, by Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director
By Louis H. Battalen, Northeast Coordinator, Agricultural Justice Project
Next Steps to Save Organic -- By Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director.
By Ed Maltby, NODPA Executive Director. September, 2018
The American Grassfed Association
James Beard Foundation’s 3rd Annual Good Food Guide
How this will impact Organic Dairy Farmers in the Northeast
Letter to the Editor
Now in its 13th Year of working for organic dairy farm families
Ask the Vets: Q & A
Open Letter
COMMENTARY
A scourge or a necessity?
Architect of the Pasture Rule
In fact, if we want to solve our milk price problems, we’ll need four horses.
COMMENTARY
Localism is becoming a strategy to save the farm and the businesses and communities that depend on it.
COMMENTARY
COMMENTARY
COMMENTARY
An Interview With Dean Sparks of Empire Organics
What should we look for?
COMMENTARY
COMMENTARY
There are hints that his ag secretary Tom Vilsack may have an open mind to alternative viewpoints.
October 7, 2008
Research and planning grants in the Northeast and North Central US
NEWS & OPINION
HP Hood LLC refuses to address increase in costs of production for their organic family farms and demands money back for a one month overpayment of 17 cents a gallon
Stop the Attack on Public Health and the Environment in the Farm Bill
What Is the Whole Story