Troon Vineyard recently announced it’s the first farm and winery in Oregon to receive the newly launched Regenerative Organic Certification (R.O.C.).

On the heels of one of the most challenging and demanding years in the history of the fresh produce industry, leaders from the production and retail side of business will explore what lies ahead for the future of organic fresh produce in the second of four educational sessions at Organic Produce Summit 2021.

Arizona State University’s Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems has laid out its priorities for organic agriculture.

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 seed, how to prepare beds, how to transplant, weed and harvest. We taught basic business planning and marketing skills to go right along with variety trialing, seed production and how to successfully navigate the organic certification process.

At the Rodale Institute, we know that cover crops provide amazing benefits such as reducing pest and weed pressure, enhancing soil and water quality, increasing nutrient cycling efficiency, and providing nutrients to cash crops.

Details were recently announced for the fall meeting of the U.S. National Organic Standards Board.