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Dear fellow organic farmers and educators,
I am attending a Farm Bill Conf this week in Indianapolis
that is focused specifically on what the Farm bill has to offer for organic
farmers. If you have any thoughts or questions you would like me to seek info
please ask. I will then report back the findings and a summary via this
listserv next week, Monday.
Some questions I have:
1.
How can a farmer access the storage support for
postharvest that is being sold to schools? (there is wording to support storage
space/facility for those that want to sell to their local schools)
2.
Will the NRCS programs accept organic certification as
documentation for many/any of their conservation programs? If not
what is the format needed for an organic farmer to apply. What is the BEP
to make it worth the farmers while to apply for the programs.
If you have other thoughts and questions please send me by Tue
night as the program starts on Wed.
Thanks and look forward to sharing the info with all of you
Vicki Morrone
Upcoming hightunnel workshop-Thur Nov 13 7-9:30 pm EST.
Also please do not forget the upcoming advanced hoophouse
workshop that is available on line .if you have access to a computer that is
connected to the internet you can see the program live on Thur at 7pm-9:30 ,
Nov 13 at https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/hightunnels
/ You will need Adobe Flashplayer which is free software but must be
downloaded before. It indicates it takes 2 min to download on 56k speed (which
is a typical connection for dialup). Here is the link for this free software.
It is needed to run the Adobe connect program that will host this hightunnel
conference.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Vicki
Morrone
Organic
Vegetable and Crop Outreach Specialist
Michigan
State University
C.S.
Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems
303
Natural Resources Bldg.
East
Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-3542
517-282-3557
(cell)
517-353-3834
(fax)
For
information on organic agriculture production please visit:
http://www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu/
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