On Thursday morning cold, cloudy, and windy weather conditions greeted visitors to Jon and Tracy TePoel's dairy farm in Douglas County's rural Maple area. The visitors had come from across northern ...

As the only government-administered label that addresses farming practices, the organic emblem is vitally important. There literally is no other badge that carries as much weight. USDA certified ...

Operations in California that want to call their product organic need to register with the CDFA State Organic Program (SOP) and comply with USDA National Organic Program (NOP) regulations. Farmers who ...

One of the main barriers to organic certification is the transition period. Our team has compiled a list of resources and tools that you can use to help transition your farm. Below are resources and ...

SKANEATELES, N.Y. — Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. “I love the ones with the pink noses,” he says. This pink-nosed animal is just one of about 3,200 cattle at Twin Birch Dairy in ...

The $35 billion organic-food industry has nearly tripled in size in the past decade, challenging the Agriculture Department’s ability to monitor the more than 25,000 farms and other organizations that ...

Farmer Jeremy Brown taps the nose of a young calf. “I love the ones with the pink noses,” he says. This pink-nosed animal is just one of about 3,200 cattle at Twin Birch Dairy in Skaneateles, New York ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A 10-acre Purdue University research farm has been certified as organic, giving Purdue scientists a chance to play a bigger role in the growing organic farming field.

The abrupt decision by New Hampshire to stop certifying organic livestock farms will not have a big effect on the state’s agriculture but it shows that maintaining food production is a complicated ...