Managing for insect pests, including the alfalfa weevil (Hypera postica), is a significant challenge in alfalfa production systems. This study assessed the impacts of alfalfa harvest timing on alfalfa weevil survival and crop damage across a wide geographic range in the Intermountain Western United States.

These reports, produced by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, provide current national price data and market overviews for products that have been grown, processed and certified to USDA’s National Organic Program standards.

Welcome to the Organic Advisor Call Series — quick-hit conversations on the hottest topics in organic field crops. Whether you're tuning in from your desk, truck, or tractor, you'll spend one hour each episode learning about emerging issues from expert farmers and industry leaders.

In this webinar, produced by Albert Lea Seed, farmer Scott Myers from Woodlyn Acres Farm (Dalton, OH) discusses how to interseed winter small grains into organic soybeans for weed suppression. He offers guidance on topics including field preparation, planting, weed control, and harvest, outlining his own successes and failures and sharing tips to help others succeed.

This USDA Agricultural Marketing Service factsheet explains the Origin of Livestock final rule, which revises organic regulations governing the one-time transition of dairy animals into organic production. It clarifies transition practices for new and existing operations, standardizes certification requirements across producers, and aims to promote fair competition in the organic dairy market.

In this project, we finished Texas longhorn beef cattle on the Sunshine Farm by using polywire (temporary electric fence) to break-feed crop residues and forages in a narrow strip cropping system without supplemental feed. To close the nutr…

Canada thistle is among the most difficult weeds to manage in temperate agricultural production systems. Traditional methods of managing Canada thistle include tillage, mowing, and repeated herbicide applications; however, additional control methods are sought-after. Puccinia punctiformis, a rust fungus that targets Canada thistle, is a potential biological control agent. This study assessed the efficacy of Puccinia inoculation to successfully induce rust disease outbreaks in Canada thistle populations.

Developed by the University of Vermont, Michigan State University, and USDA, this web-based toolkit supports food hub operators at all stages with modular guidance organized by leadership role. Drawing on a decade of research and operator interviews, it covers operations, food safety, producer networks, business planning, and resilience — complemented by podcast episodes and an annotated bibliography.

Join Dr. Bijesh Maharjan, Professor of Agronomy & Horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for a discussion about the soil health cycle. Learn about what the soil health cycle is, why fostering healthy soils is so important, and how the soil health cycle relates to human health.

This webinar, Part 1 of a two-part series “No-Tilling Organic Corn into Living Alfalfa,” presents the research findings of a study conducted by Dr. Erin Silva from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with Cornell University, on the outcomes of planting organic corn into living mulches (including alfalfa, red clover, and yellow clover).

This publication from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln highlights the institution's commitment to sustainable agriculture through organic farming research. It describes how four agricultural research centers, supported by USDA Integrated Organic Program grants, conduct organic crop research across 120 acres of certified organic land spanning three of Nebraska's four ecoregions and multiple field laboratories statewide.

Parasitoid insects that use different hosts can have a subdivided population structure that corresponds to host use. A subdivided population structure may favor local adaptation of subpopulations to small-scale environmental differences and…