This factsheet highlights best practices, buyer perspectives, and market resources for producers engaging organic dairy buyers.

This article and short video are for farmers curious about transitioning to organic agriculture, covering the purpose and process of organic transition, certification requirements, and available resources to support the transition journey and decision.

Veggie Compass is a decision support tool to help diversified vegetable farmers understand their costs of production and evaluate profitability by crop and market channel. It enables farmers to make decisions to adjust prices, reduce costs, shift market channel focus, reduce or drop unprofitable products, and expand production of their most profitable ventures based on their own farm data.

In this podcast episode, produced by the Kansas Rural Center, Amy Glattly and Charlotte from KRC interview Lacy Myers of Wild Hollow Farm, exploring her path into agriculture, marketing strategies, joining CSAs, land considerations, and soil health practices. Topics include composting, raising chickens, overcoming farming barriers, seed sourcing through Fruition Seeds, and advice for beginning farmers.

Fruit thinning is a practice that allows plants to allocate their energy and resources into producing larger, higher-quality fruits, prioritizing quality over quantity. It has been trialed in tomato production, with observed benefits to fruit quality without significant yield reductions. In this study, researchers in Colorado set out to understand how tomato fruit thinning performs in organic, high-tunnel production systems.

The Contamination Avoidance and Testing Protocols Project's primary objective is twofold. It seeks to limit transgenic contamination of organic seed while also facilitating early identification of contaminated seed lots. The project focused…

This factsheet summarizes best practices, buyer perspectives, and market resources for producers engaging organic vegetable buyers.

Farm Commons' Rachel Armstrong joins the Organic Farmers Association to discuss how a buyer's bankruptcy can devastate a farmer's business, sharing proactive tools farmers can use to avoid clawback notices and disputes.

The Lean Workbook, developed by the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC), is a practical, hands-on resource designed to help food and agricultural businesses improve efficiency, reduce waste, and strengthen overall operations. Built specifically for producers, processors, and value-added entrepreneurs, this workbook translates lean business management principles into simple, real-world applications that can be immediately used in day-to-day operations.

Recent years have seen an explosion of new soil health tests, measuring a wide variety of indicators that depend on the activity of soil microorganisms. In this episode of Voices from the Field, Mike Morris, NCAT’s Southwest Regional Director, talks with Dr. Barbara Bellows, soil scientist at the Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research, about her new ATTRA publication, Soil Health Indicators and Tests.

Organic producers are required to incorporate soil-building practices into their management plan. Cover cropping is one option, but the economics of incorporating cover crops into high tunnel rotations have not been well studied. This study compared the full economic costs and benefits of growing a leguminous winter cover crop (hairy vetch) in organic high tunnels between vegetable cash crop (tomato) seasons.

Organic farmers require crop varieties that are specifically adapted to the unique challenges of organic systems. These varieties should be able to access organic sources of fertility more effectively, compete with weeds, and resist pests.…