Forty-one House and Senate lawmakers will convene tomorrow to hash out differences between their two versions of the Farm Bill. To see if …
Articles by Category: All | Conference Guide | Education | Events | Field Notes | Homepage Right | Media Spotlight | Resources | Seed Ethics | Seed Policy | Seed Stories | State of Organic Seed | Support Organic Seed | Team News | Uncategorized |
Farm Bill Update: What’s at Stake for Organic Farmers
The following article is cross-posted from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition's (NSAC) blog series, "What's at Stake in the Farm …
USDA Should Commit to Reinvigorating Public Cultivar Programs
On August 15, 2013, I participated in a listening session hosted by USDA’s Plant Breeding Working Group. OSA is grateful that USDA hosted …
Student Organic Seed Symposium: An Address on Advocacy
My name is Kristina Hubbard, and for those of you who aren’t familiar with Organic Seed Alliance, we are a national non-profit organization …
Seed Industry Consolidation is Still ‘Out of Hand’
Dr. Philip Howard of Michigan State University has just updated his very telling graphics representing consolidation in the global seed …
More Than 150 Businesses, Groups Call for Improved Oversight of GE Field Trials
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2013 CONTACTS Kristina Hubbard, (406) 493-6965, kristina@seedalliance.org Victoria Bouloubasis, (919) …
More Than 100 Groups Urge Support of Tester Amendment in 2013 Farm Bill
JOINT PRESS RELEASE Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA and Organic Seed Alliance More than 100 farm organizations, …
Ask Your Senators to Support Public Seed in the Farm Bill
Senator Jon Tester is introducing a Farm Bill amendment next week that aims to reinvigorate classical plant breeding and public cultivar …
Seeding Canola, Ceding the Willamette
The debate around canola production in Oregon’s Willamette Valley is not new. For years proponents have lobbied to remove planting …
Oregon Legislators Should Vote ‘Yes’ on HB 2427
I grew up working and playing in the Oregon countryside next to fields of broccoli, corn, beets, and beans. Strawberry picking was my first …
TAKE ACTION Make Sure Organic is Funded & Protected
UPDATED 3-14-13 Senator Tester (MT) has introduced an amendment (#74) that strikes the "biotech rider" language (background here) from the …
Tell Congress to Restore Funding for Organic Research
When members of Congress extended the old Farm Bill on January 1, 2013, they left out dozens of critical organic and sustainable agriculture …
