The New Jersey Department of Agriculture has asked members of the ag community to distribute the attached communications throughout the ag community. The letter from NJDCA concerns farm-labor housing, especially any agricultural buildings that previously served other purposes but have been converted to farm-labor housing. It also emphasizes a phased-in approach to helping farms, if...
The House Agriculture Committee has approved a Farm Bill that the House will vote on, likely this Friday, that further tips the playing field toward subsidizing large commodity farmers, away from small and mid-size fruit and vegetable growers. This bill fails to address the needs of our farmers and will increase hunger in New Jersey....
he Farm Bill is up for renewal this year and the time for change is upon us. A regenerative and organic version of the Farm Bill...
The draft bill introduced by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX) would eradicate the Conservation...
Stand with Family Farmers and Rural Communities! The House Agricultural Committee has voted to send a version of the Farm Bill...
Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land. Source: Can Dirt Save the Earth? – The New York Times
From the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service: The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP) has posted meeting materials for the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) Spring meeting, to be held in Tuscon, AZ, April 25-27, 2018. Documents are posted on the Spring 2018 NOSB meeting webpage. Posted materials include a tentative Meeting Agenda and Proposals...
The Earth cannot accommodate our need and greed for food. We must change our diet before it’s too late, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot Source: Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to death | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
CULTIVATING ‘ANANDA’: JOY OF FARMING AND HEALTHY LIVING Here is a link to a wonderful summary of true sustainability in agriculture, from friends in Bangladesh. Ubing.org Post – This is a must read! “To realize the principle of biodiversity-based ecological farming, Nayakrishi farmers follow ten simple rules following the ten fingers of two hands. Fingers...
Barry Draycott, Sales Partner for Nutrients PLUS, has offered NOFA-NJ’s Bulk Order program a limited time clearance price on Clarus AGR Nutrients Plus 4-4-2 poultry compost fertilizer. Shipping costs will be determined based on the quantity ordered. Attached, please find a product tri-fold, a one page info sheet, and the product’s OMRI Cert Clarus AGR.
