Posts Tagged ‘national organic program’

Organic Livestock Recieve Emancipation Proclamation from USDA

February 15, 2010 On Friday, February 12, the USDA issued its final ruling for Access to Pasture organic certification requirements for all organic livestock producers. The National Organic Program (NOP) began in October of 2002, and up until the present was designed to ensure that pasture and ruminant animals received adequate access to pasture grass, [...]

The Organic Community, the USDA, and the Morning After

The Organic Community, the USDA, and the Morning After

Part 5: Our previous look at the history behind organic agriculture delved into the grassroots community’s courtship of federal recognition and the consummation of that relationship with the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) in 1990. Today’s discussion will pick up in the light of the morning after and the reservations – felt to this day [...]