Category:Media/News

Jim Riddle and Vandana Shiva On August 25, 2015, Jim Riddle, Director of Organic Independents LLP, spoke at the 3rd International Conference on Trade and Market Development of Organic Products in Tehran, Iran. Riddle spoke on the “Environmental and Health Impacts of GMOs.” The daylong conference was attended by 600 persons, with extensive media coverage…. Read more »

Common Dreams by Sarah Lazare Source: Lock the Gate Alliance New report finds that the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership poses a threat to state regulations against hazardous pesticides, products, and fracking chemicals The mammoth Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) under secret negotiation between the United States and European Union is poised to slash… Read more »

UC Food Observer by Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD Dr. Pedro Sanchez Source: Columbia University Dr. Pedro Sanchez currently serves as director of the Agriculture and Food Security Center at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Sanchez left his native Cuba at age 18 to study at Cornell University, where he received B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees in soil science…. Read more »

[NOTE: The Cornucopia Institute is one of the 19 groups FoodTank named as working to protect the integrity of organic food and agriculture.] FoodTank by Danielle Nierenberg and Emily Nink The Organic Trade Association (OTA), a membership-based organization of organic food companies, is working to bust myths about organic food. “Despite organic sales and accessibility at all-time… Read more »

The Des Moines Register by Christopher Doering Source: NRCS WASHINGTON – The number of organic farms in Iowa is increasing as producers expand to meet surging demand for the specialty products, the Agriculture Department said Thursday. The state added 94 organic farms from 2008 to 2014 and had 612 organic farms last year, making Iowa… Read more »

Beyond Pesticides (September 14, 2015) On Thursday September 10, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in a bench ruling, rejected the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit (Case3:15-cv-01690) that challenges the National Organic Program’s (NOP) failure to follow proper legal procedures in making a… Read more »

Fund-a-Farmer Project FACT is now accepting applications from livestock and poultry farmers for our Fund-a-Farmer grants. The Fund-a-Farmer Project provides grants to qualifying humane farmers who need assistance in improving the welfare of their farm animals. Grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded for projects that help farms transition to and/or improve pasture-based systems. Learn more about… Read more »

Huffington Post J.S. McDougall Source: Nicolas Raymond Regenerative agriculture is the dawn of planetary engineering. And that’s great news for the future of the planet. Here’s how I know. We have five hay fields on our farm. They are the kind of rolling, green, and gorgeous fields that are typical across Vermont’s pastoral green mountains…. Read more »

AgriPulse by Spencer Chase Source: Environmental Illness Network WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2015 – The California Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday a notice of intent to list glyphosate, one of the most widely-used herbicides in agriculture, and three other chemicals to a list of carcinogens under the state’s Proposition 65 law. Under the law, substances identified… Read more »

The Tampa Tribune by Yvette C. Hammett Source: Isaac Shepherd DOVER — Ronnie Young spent hours over the past couple of weeks knocking on neighbors’ doors. He was not making social calls. Young, a farmer in east Hills­borough County, was alerting neighbors that he was about to apply fumigant to a portion of the 400… Read more »