For those transitioning to organic farming, it can be difficult to know how to meet the federal organic standards without access to the same toolkit they used while practicing conventional farming. Join moderator Chris Boomsma in this last installment of a four part series on transitioning to organic farming, where we discuss tips and trends to organically manage soil health, fertility, and biology.

Presenters share insights from five long-term organic farms, discussing successes, challenges, and strategies for managing biodiversity and biological control habitats to enhance sustainable farming practices.

Explore this organic-certified winter nursery for corn breeding, designed to meet organic farmers' needs. This resource offers valuable insights for corn breeders and anyone interested in corn breeding or organic production systems.

Learn about Michigan's organic dry bean production, covering breeding, variety selection, and cover crop influence on yields, nitrogen management, and soil fertility.

Discover how organic farmers control aphids naturally using beneficial insects like hoverflies. This resource highlights intercropping techniques and research by Eric Brennan for efficient biological control in organic lettuce production.

This webinar dicusses how to safely create compost teas for gardening and agriculture. Discover regulations by the National Organic Program and EPA, and understand their beneficial uses.

This webinar covers essential learning objectives for blackberry cultivation, including weed impacts, control methods, fertigation, post-harvest irrigation effects, and root growth, benefiting both trailing and other blackberry production methods for farmers and researchers.

This resource reviews anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) techniques for managing soil-borne pathogens, with a focus on strawberry production in California, discussing efficacy, disease suppression mechanisms, and practical insights from growers' experiences.

Explore effective non-antibiotic fire blight control methods for organically grown apples and pears, focusing on integrated material sequencing and addressing interactions that may cause russeting on developing fruits.

Join this webinar to explore innovative organic dryland wheat management strategies. Discover data from Utah's compost research and learn how to enhance water efficiency, yield, and soil quality for sustainable farming.

This advanced webinar explores IPM strategies for managing pests like the Yellowmargined Leaf Beetle. Learn about trap crops, attractants, and biorational insecticides for effective pest control in organic crucifer production.

Join Diego Nieto from UCSC in this informative webinar, focusing on how predators and parasitoids can effectively manage cabbage aphids, diamondback moths, and cabbage root flies in organic brassica crops.

Discover the CIOA project, enhancing organic carrots with better disease resistance, weed competitiveness, and flavor. This webinar covers three years of trials comparing performance in organic vs. conventional systems.

Explore this four-year study on crop rotation with strawberries, featuring broccoli and lettuce. Discover insights on disease management, soil fertility, yields, and economic analysis.

Explore nitrogen management challenges in organic strawberry cultivation. Learn about nitrogen uptake patterns, synchronizing nutrient supply, pre-plant amendments, leaching losses, and improving fertigation efficiency for better crop outcomes.

Learn effective techniques for selecting and breeding heirloom dry beans, enhancing adaptation to local conditions.

Explore aphid-borne viruses affecting cucurbits. Learn about their spread, management challenges, diagnosis, and strategies like genetic resistance and innovative production practices to minimize losses.

This webinar covers wild bee conservation, featuring identification tools for organic farmers and insights from Rosy Smit of Camp Korey. Learn how to monitor bees and enhance outreach efforts for effective conservation.

Learn about NOP regulations and biodiversity conservation in organic farming, as well as practical conservation practices from expert John Quinn.

This webinar will guide diversified organic vegetable farmers on the FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act compliance timelines starting in 2016, helping them understand necessary steps for successful implementation of the new regulations.