Field Notes – November 2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

Farmers considering shifting their operations to organic farming have an extra reason to be thankful this season – all the help they can get from the Transitioning to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). David Redhage points to a recent webinar explaining TOPP.

Do you know where the turkey on your table came from? The USDA wants to – but some ranchers’ groups have sued, saying that new electronic livestock tracking rules are ineffective, burdensome and intrusive.

Thanksgiving tables would be pretty bare without a stable seed supply. This month we look at seed from two different angles – a report looking at ways to solve a shortage of native plant seed for restoration projects, and a new, mechanical approach to eliminating weed seeds at the same time crops are harvested.

Field Notes – November 2024 (PDF, 600 KB)