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contact02/06/12 Monsanto’s new seeds could be a tech dead end
02/06/12 Organic federation seen as a strategy for family farm survival, regional competitiveness
OFARM "Organic federation seen as a strategy for family farm survival, regional competitiveness"
Below is a link to the USDA website with the article.
The entire article is devoted to OFARM as a strategy for family farm survival. The Guptil/Welsh study referred to is the other piece to the study done by Dick Levins about OFARM.
www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/openmag.htm Click on the January/February 2012 issue
02/06/12 Monsanto’s Infertility-Linked Roundup Discovered in All Urine Samples Tested
02/05/12 Gloves Come Off in Genetically Engineered Food Fight
02/04/12 "Which milk tastes better, conventional or organic?"
Monsanto Defeated by Roundup Resistant Weeds
Monsanto Defeated by Roundup Resistant Weeds
An explosion of glyphosate resistant weeds forces Monsanto to run away from
farmers’ rising weed control costs Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji
Monsanto is surrendering to glyphosate resistant weeds [1], according to a new
briefing by UK based GM freeze. They are spreading at ‘exponential’ rates in US
farms and are increasingly documented in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Europe and South Africa.
While Monsanto grandly claims that its GM technologies help the environment by
reducing pesticide use, resistant weeds springing up across the world paints a
different picture. Glyphosate resistance has developed as the result of large-
scale use of their pesticides. Glyphosate is the active ingredient of Monsanto’s
world best-selling herbicide, Roundup.
Read the rest of this report here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Monsanto_defeated_by_herbicide_resistant_superweeds.php
Read other reports on GM agriculture here
"The very real danger of genetically modified foods"
"The very real danger of genetically modified foods"
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-very-real-danger-of-genetically-modified-foods/251051/#.TwtOTLqrdxA.facebook
01/15/12 - Rootworm resistance to GMO corn
Rootworm resistance to GMO corn
http://news.yahoo.com/bugs-may-resistant-genetically-modified-corn-213322828.html
01/15/12 - Monsantos GMO corn linked to liver failure
Monsantos GMO corn linked to liver failure
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html
01/15/12 - Food Trends for 2012-Organic becomes the Norm
Food Trends for 2012-Organic becomes the Norm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-stout/food-trends-2012_b_1183637.html?ref=food
09/27/11 - OFARM Position Statement on organic commodity futures trading
09/27/11 - Organic Commodity Futures Trading Is a Step Backwards
03/10/10 - Organic Dairy Producers
01/26/10 - OFARM Files Comments With USDA in Opposition to GE Alfalfa
01/29/09 - NFO News Release
04/28/07 - NFU Urges Dairy Price Investigation
For Immediate Release: April 13, 2007
Contact: Liz Friedlander, 202-314-3191
WASHINGTON (April 13, 2007) – National Farmers Union requested USDA Inspector General Phyllis K. Fong conduct an investigation into potential misreporting practices of non-fat dry milk (NFDM). In a letter to Inspector Fong, NFU President Tom Buis said the prices reported by the National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) have consistently been below actual prices in the marketplace, resulting in lower prices for dairy producers.
“I urge your office to immediately investigate potential misreporting and review milk pricing programs to ensure all dairy prices are accurately and fairly reported,” Buis said in the letter.
NASS has been reporting NFDM prices below the market price for nearly eight months. Buis said that this is very troubling because USDA uses NASS data to calculate prices for dairy commodities. Farmers, therefore, receive less than the fair market value for their milk. Today, USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service revised the NASS weekly NFDM survey prices for the three final weeks of March 2007, a signal the department recognizes a problem exists.
“Since this misreporting began, dairy farmers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars,” Buis said. “America’s dairy producers should not be held economically liable for the department’s improper administration of its programs.”
National Farmers Union is urging USDA to take action and immediately review price reporting procedures and milk pricing programs and, if dairy prices have been understated, work to ensure that dairy farmers are compensated for lost revenue.
04/13/07 - OFARM Position on Public Price Reporting of Organic Crops and Livestock
April 13th 2007
OFARM Position on Public Price Reporting of Organic Crops and Livestock:
Recently the USDA through its Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) began reporting organic crop prices.
After lengthy discussions with AMS representatives, the OFARM Board of Directors has adopted the following position: “These price reports may not reflect the day to day actual marketing taking place within the OFARM structure.” They also do not reflect sustainable prices organic producers need to receive to meet their cost of production plus a reasonable profit.
Your OFARM member organization marketers do not rely on these reported prices in any way for negotiating the best possible sale of your grains and livestock.
One of the best ways for you to be able to extract the dollars you want and need from the marketplace has been shown to be through group and network marketing through the OFARM member organizations.
The USDA and other institutions may ask you to volunteer information for their price reporting. Whether you report your price and contract information to a government agency or institution is at your discretion.
April 3, 2007 Adopted by the OFARM Board of Directors
