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Seed Policy · January 31, 2011

Leading Organic Businesses Oppose GE Sugar Beets

Cross-posted from the Center for Food Safety Leading organic businesses and trade groups have filed a joint brief to the U.S. Court of …

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Seed Policy · January 31, 2011

We Stand United in Opposition to GE Alfalfa

We stand united in opposition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to once again allow unlimited, nationwide commercial …

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Seed Policy · January 27, 2011

OSA Calls USDA Alfalfa Decision a Threat to Organic Integrity

For Immediate Release: January 27, 2011 Contact: Kristina Hubbard, Director of Advocacy, (406) 493-6965, kristina@seedalliance.org USDA …

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Seed Policy · January 25, 2011

NPR: A Tale of Two Seed Farmers

NPR recently visited Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed about the GE sugar beet case. "This valley is not big enough to have genetically …

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Field Notes · January 21, 2011

Seed Digest (January 8 – 21, 2011)

Tell USDA to Protect Organic Integrity, Beginning with Alfalfa USDA is poised to approve GE alfalfa despite the agency’s acknowledgment in …

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Seed Policy · January 19, 2011

Tell USDA to Protect Organic Integrity, Beginning with Alfalfa

As we wrote last month, USDA has completed its environmental impact statement for GE alfalfa and is poised to approve ("deregulate") its …

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Field Notes · January 14, 2011

Mother Earth News: Interest in Local, Organic Seed on Rise

Mother Earth News recently published results from an organic garden seed survey provided to about 200 seed companies in the U.S. and Canada. …

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Field Notes · January 13, 2011

Take a Virtual Tour of Nash’s Organic Produce (Sequim, WA)

Nash's Organic Produce is one of the most successful organic farms on the Olympic Peninsula, and a long partner in OSA's participatory plant …

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Seed Policy · January 12, 2011

Charting a Course for Seed Self-Determination

This article is featured in the Organic Farming Research Foundation's Winter 2011 Issue Bulletin. Photo credit: Judy Owsowitz In 2005, …

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Seed Policy · January 11, 2011

OFRF Issue Bulletin: “Forging a Path to An Organic Seed Future”

The following article is featured in the Organic Farming Research Foundation's Winter 2011 Issue Bulletin. The day after the State of …

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Uncategorized · January 9, 2011

Seed Digest (December 24, 2010 – January 7, 2011)

OFRF Issue Bulletin on Organic Seed Check out the Organic Farming Research Foundation’s (OFRF) most recent Issue Bulletin, titled: “Organic …

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Uncategorized · January 8, 2011

NOC to Sec. Vilsack: Adopt Contamination Prevention Plan

The National Organic Coalition sent the following letter to Secretary Vilsack last week outlining a path for GMO contamination …

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