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Seed Policy · October 29, 2021

What’s the Cross-incompatibility Trait and How Can It Protect Seed Integrity?

In the face of widespread contamination, organic corn growers and plant breeders need assurance that cross-incompatibility genes will remain …

See below for the recording of Intellectual Property Rights, Race, and Colonialism: A Community Conversation that took place on September …

Seed Policy · August 9, 2021

Six environmental advocacy organizations filed suit last week against the USDA, challenging the agency’s May 2020 rule that brazenly removes …

January 21, 2021

On January 19th OSA co-hosted a listening session on GMO contamination in seed with Friends of Family Farmers, Cultivate Oregon, Our Family …

December 16, 2020

January 19, 2021
12:00–1:30p Pacific / 1:00–2:30p Mountain / 2:00–3:30p Central / 3:00–4:30p Eastern | Zoom

Organic Seed Alliance (OSA), Friends of Family Farmers, Cultivate Oregon, Our Family Farms, OSU Extension Small Farms Program, Oregonians …

Seed Policy · July 15, 2019

The organic community is increasingly challenged by genetically engineered (GE) crops (or GMOs) showing up in organic seed and crops. …

Seed Policy · June 18, 2019

Oregon seed growers need you. Do you have two minutes to take action and help protect organic seed in the Willamette Valley? The Oregon …

Seed Policy · June 11, 2019

Thanks to Frank Morton of Wild Garden Seed in Philomath, Oregon, for this guest commentary. For background on this commentary, see this …

Seed Policy · June 21, 2017

The organic community is increasingly challenged by genetically engineered (GE) crops (also known as GMOs) showing up in organic seed and …

Seed Policy · April 21, 2017

As we wrote earlier this week, OSA is in Denver for the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) spring meeting. On the agenda was the …

Seed Policy · July 15, 2016

Both the Senate and House have passed the "DARK Act" (S. 764), a controversial bill that's been debated for several years now. The bill is …

Seed Policy · June 10, 2015

The USDA announced in March that it was ditching a 2008 proposal that would have updated its regulations for genetically engineered (GE) …