This tipsheet, produced by ATTRA NCAT, reviews botanical control options for leaf miners, covering quassia bark, chili pepper extract, neem, and walnut leaf tincture. It summarizes research on each botanical's effectiveness at killing larvae or deterring egg-laying adults, and provides practical preparation guidance, offering growers low-risk alternatives to synthetic pesticides for managing this widespread crop pest.

Join Robert Crystal-Ornelas from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Amber Sciligo from The Organic Center for a webinar about how organic farmers can increase carbon sequestration in their production systems. Learn about the role that agriculture plays in climate change and how organic management practices can contribute to mitigation efforts by storing atmospheric carbon in the soil.

This guide, produced by ATTRA NCAT, explains how microbial inoculants — including rhizobia, mycorrhizae, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, and endophytes — work to enhance soil health and plant productivity. It reviews the gap between promising greenhouse research and inconsistent field results, identifies key factors limiting effectiveness, and offers practical recommendations for selecting, applying, and supporting inoculants.

Join Amber Sciligo from The Organic Center, David Crowder from Washington State University, and Olivia Smith from the University of Georgia for a research-based webinar about the potential environmental and economic benefits of organic production, including benefits to biodiversity and farm profitability.

This guide, produced by ATTRA NCAT, examines how nutrients move through pasture ecosystems via the rhizosphere, soil food web, and ‘liquid carbon pathway.’ It covers the roles of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, earthworms, and livestock in cycling nutrients, and outlines three key management practices — tall-grass grazing, high stock density, and compost application — for building productive, regenerative pasture soils.

This webinar, produced by The Organic Center, disseminates research findings on the benefits of organic farming to soil health and climate change mitigation and outlines specific organic soil-building practices to illuminate strategies that have the biggest impacts on soil health.

This guide, produced by Cornell University, covers late summer crucifer cover crops suited to planting after vegetable harvest in late July and August. It compares forage radish, mustards, rapeseed, forage turnip, arugula, and winter canola across key traits including winter hardiness, nitrogen recovery, disease suppression, and weed control, with variety recommendations and regional seed sourcing contacts.

Are you looking for data-driven tools to help your sales or marketing teams articulate the environmental, health, social, and economic benefits of organic? Join Gwendolyn Wyard of the Organic Trade Association (OTA) to learn about some of the tools available to farmers to communicate the benefits and contributions of the USDA Organic standard.

This guide, produced by Cornell University, covers early fall small grain cover crop options for New York vegetable growers, comparing oats, wheat, and rye for September planting. It outlines each crop's winter hardiness, spring management considerations, and tradeoffs.

This webinar will be helpful for those curious about the growth of the U.S. organic sector, as well as those needing to communicate the impact of organic with investors, legislators, or members of the public. Learn about the 2022 National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA NASS) Organic Production Survey results and hear from experts about the USDA Quick Stats Tool.

This guide, produced by Cornell University, covers late fall cover crop options for New York vegetable growers planting in late September and October. It compares rye, wheat, and spelt for winter soil protection, detailing seeding rates, timing tradeoffs, and spring management, noting that rye remains the most reliable late-season choice despite requiring careful spring control.

Join The Organic Center for an engaging discussion with researchers from Minnesota, California, and Maryland as they present their findings on the impacts of cover-crop grazing on food safety and soil health for fresh spinach and cucumbers in organic systems.