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INSIDE ORGANIC: Congress Pressured to Cut Mandatory Organic Research Funding...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · Nov/Dec 2008 Less than six months after making farm bill funding for cost share and organic research programs mandatory, the Bush Administration is pressuring...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Organic Farming Memo to New Obama Administration: An Organic...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · Jan/Feb 2009 When President-Elect Barak Obama takes office in January, he becomes the fourth president challenged to fully implement the 1990 Organic Foods...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: New Census of Agriculture Numbers Support the Claim Organic...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · March/April, 2009 The 2007 Census of Agriculture, the first to include detailed national information on both the number and size of farms under organic management...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Environmental Plan Forwarded to Obama Team Calls for More...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · May/June, 2009 An important development in the rush to put new policy agendas in the hands of the Obama transition team is the inclusion of more support for organic...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Market-Led or Government-Facilitated Organic Growth? Results...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · July/Aug, 2009 How does “Organic Farming: Good for Nature, Good for You” strike you as a new U.S. Department of Agriculture slogan? Or “Organic Farming: In Goodness...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: USDA’s Surprising Decision to Order a Rigorous Outside Audit...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · January, 2007 After seven long years of stonewalling to block independent review and oversight of its troubled organic program, it looks like the U.S. Department of...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Putting Organic Integrity First at the NOP: Is This New USDA...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · Nov/Dec 2009 Is it possible organic integrity could become Priority Number One at the U.S. Department of Agriculture after all these years of inattentive oversight,...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Farmers and Researchers Team Up: How This Helps Organic...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · Jan/Feb 2010 Recent trends in organic research suggest Midwest organic farmers may want to consider some new questions: Who are the scientists doing organic...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: USDA Had an Organic Farming Coordinator in 1980; Call for...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · March/April 2010 At this time 30 years ago the most important organic farming policy document ever produced by the federal government was being edited for the last...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Getting All 27 Agencies to Support Organic Farming: A New...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · May/June 2010 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is engaged in a campaign to convince the organic community that its support for organic farming now extends well...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Decision Allowing Monsanto and Others to Pour Political Money...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics· July/August 2010 If you think it’s tough now trying to derail the global campaign by Monsanto and others to mislead the media and convince gullible policymakers that...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: The Public Benefits of Organic Farming and Why They Matter:...

by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · September 2005   Organic farmers have a story to tell and need to work harder telling it.  The story is about the public benefits of organic...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Hill Fight Signals Alarming Shift in How Organic Policy Is...

        by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · November 2005   The bitter fight in Congress that has split the organic community and alarmed its leaders is about much more than the...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Big Push Underway to Make Organic Farming a 2007 Farm Bill...

     by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · Jan/Feb 2006   Organizations involved in national organic food and farming policymaking are gearing up in the coming months to convince...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: The Search Is Underway for the Missing Organic Farmer Voice...

  by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · March-April 2006   A new nationwide search is underway for the missing political voice of America’s organic farmers. The fact that an...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Naming Industry Representatives to Consumer Slots Upsets the...

  by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · May-June 2006   The appointment of two industry representatives to National Organic Standards Board slots reserved for consumer/public...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Expanding and Mainstreaming Organic Without the Loss of...

       by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · July/August 2006The formal launching of a National Organic Action Plan process this summer has the potential to provide a community-wide...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Wal-Mart’s Move into Organic Retailing Creates Concern and...

     by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · Sept-Oct 2006The surprise announcement that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest food merchandiser, plans to use its well-known price cutting...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Agency Solicits Research Agenda Input From Organic Farmers...

       by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · Nov/Oct 2006 The national research agenda workshop convened last month by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a U.S. Department of...

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INSIDE ORGANIC: Government Study Linking Pesticides and Cancer Supports...

       by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · Sept/Oct 2010   Food industry promoters trying to convince consumers that organic food is no more healthful than other food have been taking some hits...

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