Tom Miller - IA Attorney General - thanks Vilsack and Holder for creating this new relationship. Great for public interest for many …
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Senator Grassley and Representative Boswell Remarks at DOJ-USDA Competition Hearing in Iowa
Grassley (Iowa Senator) - Needs to understand process as much as substance. Compliments DOJ and USDA for doing this "badly needed" and …
opening remarks – Secretary Vilsack and Attorney General Eric Holder
Vilsasck says we've lost 80,000 "middle sized" farms in the last year alone. Vilsack states the these workshops are long overdue. Starts out …
Questions for Dept of Justice and USDA
Here are some of the questions we'll be asking the DOJ-USDA today - these questions reworded in various days depending on who is at the …
Blogging from the Department of Justice Antitrust Hearings
I'm in Ankeny, Iowa the first USDA-DOJ "Public Hearings Exploring Competition in Agriculture". We're at the FFA building at Des Moines …
On-farm seed breeding projects help farmers develop desirable crop traits
Organic Seed Alliance received a grant from Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) to develop breeding populations for organic broccoli, …
“Seedy Fellows – Talking Shop” In Good Tilth interview of OSA’s John Navazio and Matthew Dillon
Andrew Rodman, editor of In Good Tilth, recently interviewed Organic Seed Alliance founders John Navazio and Matthew Dillon to discuss …
Frank Morton talks about the GE Sugarbeet Case with Cooking Up a Story
Cooking Up a Story is a fantastic web site that serves up video interviews, explorations, and other programming on food and farm related …
Interview with OSA Director of Advocacy on Ethical Seed Systems
The Natural Food Merchandiser recently did an interview with Matthew Dillon on founding of OSA, farmers' roles in seed systems, and seed …
Text of Justice’s Ruling in RoundUp Ready Sugarbeet Case
For those of you who have requested more information on the sugar beet case blogged about below, here is the fulldecision by Judge White in …
Judge White’s Decision: USDA-APHIS Violated National Environmental Policy Act in deregulation of RR sugarbeets
Great news for plaintiffs Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Seed, Sierra Club, Center for Food Safety, and the farmers and consumers we …
Organic Flax Seed Contaminated by Genetically Engineered Flax
Once again an organic crop has been contaminated by a genetically engineered crop. This time the European Commission's Rapid Alert System …
