RESOURCE: November 4, 2026: ORGANIC GRAIN COOPERATIVE MARKETING MATERIALS PACKET. Click on the image below to access the 13-page flip book. Sections include Key Differences Between Conventional and Organic Grain Marketing; Production for Marketing Quality and Profit; Sales, Shipping and Pricing; Storage Handling and Testing; and Organic Grain Cooperative Marketing: How Does It Work?

RESOURCE: November 3, 2026: Organic Grain Marketing Readiness Assessment, Planning and Preparation Guide. Click image below to access the 7-page PLANNING AND PREPARATION GUIDE flipbook. Or visit Contact page to ask for a downloadable pdf to be emailed to you.

 October 26, 2026 - PODCAST

OFARM President, Steve Boyda, and Board Emeritus, Carmen Fernholz, are guest speakers on a Dirt Rich Podcast hosted by Jonathan Kilpatrick, SFA Farmer Education Director. Dirt Rich is a Podcast produced by the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota. They discuss cash crops, setting yourself up for a successful transition period, managing landlord relationships, using the transition to build soil fertility, cooperative marketing, incorporating livestock and more. Click here to listen to the podcast which was recorded on October 16, 2026. 82: Tales of Organic Transition | Dirt Rich

OFARM representatives featured in webinar

On March 3 The Land Connection hosted their final Winter Webinar Series with OFARM representatives Steve Boyda, Will Ortman, Carmen Fernholz and Ed Reznicek on the subject: Cooperative Organic Grain Marketing: How Does Organic Grain Marketing Really Work. Listen to the video below.

2023 OGRAIN Conference, January 27-28
OFARM member Mike Schulist, Marketer presentation: https://youtu.be/B9q7sfoz3M4
OFARM Vice President, Carmen Fernholz presentation: https://youtu.be/06lbdrSeb3A

 January 2021 NPSAS conference:

NPSAS 2021 Breakout Session | Cooperative Organic Grain Marketing - https://youtu.be/kT6_87nq6TQ

 

NPSAS 2021 Pre-Conference Workshop: OFARM Headwinds Facing the Future of Organic Grain Marketing- https://youtu.be/o0SEZNBSQNw

OFARM session from February 2021 MOSES Conference: https://youtu.be/xQFT67-Q9sg

 

Larry Heitkamp, an organic farmer in Minnesota, sees his customers as partners in a grand plan to replenish the land and raise healthy families. “When you buy my organic eggs, you feed your family and heal the earth.” Yellow Rose Organic

Oren Holle, a Kansas organic farmer, says food labels that say “GMO free” or “natural” can be misleading. They don’t guarantee chemical free or any of the many other advantages you get when food is grown organically. “USDA Certified Organic lets you have it all.”

What’s the best way to prevent water pollution from farm chemicals? Jackie Keller, an organic farmer in Kansas, says the answer is simple: “Don’t use them in the first place!” Her water quality award shows organic farming is the way to go.

 

Carmen Fernholz, a Minnesota organic farmer, shows how hi-tech and organic can work together. "The next time someone tells you organic farming can't feed the world because it is primitive and low-tech, show them some pictures of how I farm."

 

What can we do to save the bees? According to Tom Bilek, an organic farmer in Minnesota, the answer is simple: farm organically. “The only way I know to solve this bee problem is to not use farm chemicals. That’s why I’m glad I’m an organic farmer.”

 

Biodiversity comes naturally on this South Dakota organic farm. "We have four seasons of wildlife on our farm. Be it deer, pheasants, ducks, or bees, they all find a safe harbor here," says Charlie Johnson. "Everything thrives and does well here on our farm."

 

Harold Wilken, an organic farmer in Illinois, says one of the biggest benefits of organic farming is how well it works for bringing in a new generation of farmers. "My son Ross will never have to handle a single pound of insecticide or herbicide, and that's very important to me."

 

Paul Graham, the president of Central Waters Brewery in Amherst, Wisconsin, says, "The organic barley we buy from a local farmer is a quality product. And it's a pretty neat thing when you can go from field to bottle, all within a two-mile radius."