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California ag board to talk organics at Aug. 3 meeting
The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will be discussing market trends, research and emerging issues related to organic production at its... more »
Cascade Organic Farms harvesting 4 tons per acre of hard red wheat
Cascade Organic Farms is wrapping up the harvest of several thousand acres of new-crop irrigated organic hard red wheat, and the crop is looking very ... more »
Vineyard at Napa’s Dominus Estate goes organic
Dominus Estate recently announced that sustainably and dry-farmed Napanook vineyard on May 10, 2021 was certified organic by California Certifie... more »
Organic concern over USDA plan to spray insecticide on 2.6M Montana acres
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is concerned a USDA plan to aerially spray an insecticide on more than 2 million acres of Eastern Mon... more »
Washington State family farm debuts retail bags of organic flour
Bakers, fire up your ovens. Cascade Organic Flour is introducing new products including 5 lb. retail bags of Organic All-Purpose Flour and Organ... more »
Oregon’s Troon Vineyard earns Regenerative Organic Certification
Troon Vineyard recently announced it's the first farm and winery in Oregon to receive the newly launched Regenerative Organic Certification (R.O.C.... more »
Leaning into a rapidly changing future at Organic Farm School
For our first 12 years, the Organic Farm School focused almost entirely on core training for new organic farmers. We modeled how to propagate from see... more »
California betters its bug vacuums for lygus
For the better part of a decade, there has been some version in the market of a bug vacuum for use against lygus in California strawberries. Within fi... more »
