This guidebook, produced by Cornell University Cooperative Extension, provides guidance on organic carrot production. It outlines organic carrot varieties, field selection, planting methods, crop nutrient management, weed and disease management, harvesting techniques, and post-harvest storage.

This guidebook, produced by the Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (MOSES, now Marbleseed), provides a comprehensive overview of the organic certification process. It provides a step-by-step certification timeline, and covers allowed vs. prohibited substances, organic crops, organic livestock, organic dairy, organic processing & handling, and marketing strategies.

This factsheet, produced by Marbleseed, provides guidance for growers in the Upper Midwest seeking to plan a small-scale, commercial organic orchard. It outlines topics including site selection, fruit and cultivar selection, tree density, site preparation, soil amendments, and layout.

This article, produced by Marbleseed, introduces currants and gooseberries as nutritious, high-yielding specialty fruits well suited to organic farms in the Upper Midwest. It highlights key production considerations for new growers - including harvest labor, variety selection, pruning and training systems, weed and disease management, and the tradeoffs between currants’ ease of production and gooseberries’ greater labor and disease challenges.

This article, published by the Organic Agronomy Training Service (OATS), provides guidance to farmers seeking to understand both short- and long-term market data for the organic grain market.

This article, published by Organic Agronomy Training Service (OATS), outlines a holistic approach to organic weed management in soybeans, emphasizing that effective control begins long before planting through rotation design, seedbank reduction, and sound agronomy.

This factsheet, produced by Marbleseed, provides guidance on the organic certification process and how to select an organic certifier. Learn about record-keeping, applying for certification, selecting a certifier, and more.

This factsheet, published by Marbleseed, provides guidance to organic farmers on how to implement buffer zones to protect crops from contamination.

This factsheet, published by Marbleseed, is designed to help producers navigate the complexities of managing split and parallel production systems while maintaining organic integrity.

This factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, outlines organic-approved spray schedules for commercial field-grown green beans, presenting both a disease-timeline of major bean pathogens and an example program of OMRI-listed fungicides and bactericides.

This factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, presents a disease timeline and example organic spray schedule for common diseases affecting spring and fall field-grown cole crops. It highlights the importance of applying fungicides and bactericides before disease onset, lists example products and timing suggestions, and directs users to the full pesticide guides for more comprehensive lists.

This factsheet offers organic-compatible strategies focused on cultural practices and biological and botanical fungicides to help specialty-crop producers build integrated disease-management programs—emphasizing prevention, careful timing of applications and combining multiple tactics for best results.