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WSU free webinar series on soil health coming Jan. 11-14
Learn about soil health testing, carbon cycling, cover cropping in arid climates, soil health for pathogen and pest suppression, stress and mental hea... more »
A&L Biological begins registration of first commercial products
London, Ontario-based A&L Biological Inc, a subsidiary of A&L Canada Laboratories Inc, recently submitted its first two products for regulat... more »
Control When You Need It – Advice for Managing Hard-to-Kill Pests in Organic Vegetable
By: Fred Marmor, Field Market Development Specialist for Valent U.S.A. {Sponsored} Vegetable growers are bound to face insect issues every season. ... more »
New US-UK organic equivalency agreement taking effect
A new organic equivalence agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom takes effect Jan. 1, 2021. The USDA announced the new agreemen... more »
Michigan student organic farm restarts in-person learning
After a year hiatus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the MSU Organic Farmer Training Program is returning in 2021 to offer safe beginning ... more »
Mexican corn variety studied for its ability to use N in the air
Plants need nitrogen to grow. Although the majority of earth’s atmosphere is made up of nitrogen, plants cannot access this form of nitrogen. Instea... more »
Miraflora’s Colorado hemp farm gets organic certification
Hemp extract company Miraflora recently received USDA organic certification for its 160-acre farm in Boulder County, Colorado. Miraflora CEO Christ... more »
USDA research seeks prediction, prevention of soil erosion
“Dirt cheap” – it’s an old saying, but hardly accurate. The fact is, the United States loses about $44 billion each year from soil erosion. Th... more »
Danone soil health program expands to include 28K organic acres
Food and beverages powerhouse Danone North America continues to expand its regenerative farming program. Now completing its third year, the researc... more »
The curious pesticide resistance of the Colorado potato beetle studied
The Colorado potato beetle is a notorious pest – and a kind of unstoppable genius. The modern pesticide era began in the 1860s when Midwest farme... more »
National Organic Program gets ‘very positive’ review
The USDA’s National Organic Program recently earned good marks in a formal peer review, according to a recent newsletter from the program administra... more »
Biological control company Koppert acquires Brazil’s Geocom
Koppert Biological Systems, a biological crop control company, has acquired Geocom, headquartered in Lençóis Paulista – São Paulo, Brazil. Ope... more »
