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1 Organic Working Group Update September 17, 2015 Expo East 1
2 Federal Funding for Organic 2
3 USDA Organic Vision and Leadership 3
4 Departmental Leadership: PrioriFes USDA Goals and Vision for Organic USDA Strategic Plan Departmental Guidance Organic Working Group 4
5 USDA Strategic Plan & Organic Agriculture Goal: increase the number of cerffied organic operafons to 20,000 by 2018 Strategy: Research and educafon Outreach to farmers through field offices Risk management tools (crop insurance) Reduce paperwork / eliminate duplicafon Make cerfficafon simpler small & beginning farmers 5
6 USDA Departmental Guidance on Organic USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack s May 2013 departmental guidance on organic agriculture instructed all agencies to incorporate organic into their mission and outlined 5 priorifes: Training and outreach Growing the sector Regulatory reciprocity (reducing paperwork) Research Data 6
7 USDA Organic Working Group The Organic Working Group (OWG) is led by AMS Administrator Anne Alonzo, has members from all across USDA The OWG tracks progress against the Secretary s annual goals for organic External speakers present at OWG meefngs and brown bag lunches CoordinaFon with local & regional, sustainability & food waste, beginning farmers, and veterans efforts 7
8 Field Agency IniAaAves: ConservaAon, Financing, and Infrastructure 8
9 ConservaAon and Organic Natural Resources ConservaAon Service New programs for transifoning producers Environmental benefits of organic webinar series Training and technical guidance for field staff 9
10 Field Offices and Organic Farm Service Agency Low-Interest Loans: farm storage facilifes, microloans Bridges to Opportunity: connecfng producers with USDA resources Organic farm tours and field educafon 10
11 Infrastructure and Organic Rural Development Business & industry guaranteed loans Business development grants & grants to establishment of cooperafve development centers Rural OpportuniFes for Investment 11
12 Expanding Crop Insurance Tools Crop insurance tools for organic producers Insurance programs: Whole Farm: revenue-based, for diversified farms Contract price elecfons: based on market contracts Price elecfons: crop-by-crop prices RMA released new organic crop insurance tools in September almost 50% of all crops have organic opfons 12
13 Organic Research and Data 13
14 SupporAng Research and EducaAon on Organic Research Research focuses on improving producfvity and success of organic NaFonal InsFtute for Food & Agriculture provides grants externally for organic research Agricultural Research Service conducts internal long-term organic studies 14
15 Farming Systems Project ARS long-term, side-by-side field trials 15
16 Proceedings of USDA Organic Research Conference Special organic issue of Sustainable Agriculture Research journal is now online Proceedings of USDA-sponsored organic symposium in Long Beach, CA in November
17 NIFA-funded project: Tools for TransiAon eorganic.info/ ToolsFor TransiAon 17
18 Data on Organic ProducAon Data NaFonal Agricultural StaFsFcs Service reports on organic producfon data, acreage, volumes, and prices Agricultural MarkeFng Service publishes organic market prices weekly, including fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy Economic Research Service provides cost of producfon data on organic corn, soy, wheat, & dairy 18
19 Organic Producer Survey Hot off the presses! The 2014 Organic Producer Survey results were released today at noon. Webinar: Sept. 29, 1:00 Eastern Standard Time passcode
20 Market News Newly available Market News reports Local and regional Non-GMO grains Organic reports expanding New portal simplifies reporfng, confnues to improve 20
21 Economic Research Profit PotenAal of CerAfied Organic Field Crop ProducAon Organic producers are less likely to work off-farm Different culfvafon pracfces more mechanical weed control, more diverse crop rotafons Despite higher per-acre costs, organic has greater returns 21
22 Training and Outreach 22
23 Organic Literacy IniAaAve Organic Literacy: Organic Fundamentals and USDA Support Online training modules & in-person workshops Over 30,000 USDA staff trained on organic since 2012 In-depth guides to organic producfon & cerfficafon Focus on field office tools Organic portal, a one-stop shop for organic resources New content coming soon focus on transifon, sound & sensible 23
24 USDA Organic Portal 24
25 Organic Literacy IniAaAve Snapshot 25
26 QuesFons QuesAons? Betsy Rakola USDA Agricultural MarkeAng Service Organic Policy Advisor 26
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