Posts Tagged ‘organic farming’
Descriptions of Roger Blobaum’s Organic and Related Papers on this Website and at the Wisconsin Historical Society
Roger Blobaum is presently in the process of transferring his life long collection of organic movement and related documents to the Wisconsin Historical Society for a national organic archival collection. A portion of the collection is available on this website. It is estimated that the Wisconsin Historical Society will have Roger’s papers archived and available…
Read MorePresentation on Global Accreditation of Certifiers, Collaboration with Government Authorities and National Accreditors, and Other Organic Trade Harmonizing Activities of the International Organic Accreditation Service | 2008
By Blobaum, International Organic Accreditation Service, 2008 Website: www.ioas.org Email: [email protected] The IOAS and its services The International Organic Accreditation Service (IOAS), a nonprofit sector-specific international body established by IFOAM 10 years ago, works worldwide providing a broad range of servio relating to conformity assessment in organic agriculture.
Read MorePresentation on Food Safety at the National IPM Forum 1992
Presentation by Roger Blobaum, Blobaum and Associates, At The National IPM Forum, Washington, D.C., June 19, 1992 I appreciate very much the opportunity to participate in this forum. I am impressed by the amount of preparatory work that was done. I have been part of a national food safety dialogue the last two years and…
Read MoreOriginal OFAC Grant 1992
Organic Farmers Associations Council c/o Janus Farms Institute Rt. 3, Box 494, Silver City, NC 27344Contact Person: Kate Havel Phone: 919-742-4672 Project Director: John Matthews: 501-446-2171 Amount Requested: $7,565 March 15, 1992 Summary The Organic Farmers Associations Council (OFAC) is a national non-profit organization made up of state and regional grower and certification organizations. Although…
Read MorePaper Describing the Structure, Purpose, and Activities of the Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
The Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, a national farm policy initiative supported by WSAA and more than 400 other national and grassroots organizations, has become a significant force in the ongoing process of influencing the agriculture appropriations process and shaping a new five-year farm bill in 1995. The campaign is mobilizing support for existing funding levels…
Read MoreArticle published in “The Environmental Magazine” – Eating As If the Earth Mattered 1992
The Environmental Magazine | Eating As If the Earth Mattered Click for pdf file: January/February 1992 | Eating as if the Earth Mattered By Roger Blobaum and Lisa Lefferts January/February 1992 Environmentally savvy consumers steer clear of toxic cleaners, bleached coffee filters and plastic bags at the supermarket, and fret about the recyclability of containers.…
Read MoreBrochure of the Organic Farmers Association Council | 1989
Organic Farmers in 17 States Market Commodities At Premium Prices Through New Marketing Agency 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum Larry Eggen, like many Midwest organic producers, used to talk about getting state or local marketing setups organized to help farmers sell organically-grown production to buyers in big cities. That was when Eggen had a small vegetable and hog operation near Walnut Grove, Minn., and was active in signing up organic farmers…
Read MoreMadison Co-op History 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum A direct linkup between farmers and consumers at Madison, Wis., the last two years has made plenty of lean organically-grown beef available below supermarket prices to thousands of food co-op members. The meat comes from calves raised by family farmers and fattened without stilbestrol, antibiotics, and other chemicals put in feeding rations…
Read MoreNebraska Experiment Station Leader Outlines Details of Midwest’s First Organic Farming Trials 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum Setting up some alternative crop management plots at an agricultural field laboratory hardly qualifies as a major research event. But to Midwest organic farmers, accustomed to getting the cold shoulder from agricultural college researchers, it ranks as a significant breakthrough. A report on these new plots by Dr. Warren W. Sahs was…
Read MoreINSIDE ORGANIC: Farmers and Researchers Team Up: How This Helps Organic Farmers Shape the Research Being Done (Jan/Feb 2010)
by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · Jan/Feb 2010 Recent trends in organic research suggest Midwest organic farmers may want to consider some new questions: Who are the scientists doing organic research in your state? What kind of research is being done? Are these researchers reaching out to involve you in their work? And are…
Read MoreEuropean Soil Scientists Discuss Biological Farming at Summer Organic Farming Workshop at Boys Town 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum A fascinating view of biological agriculture was presented by Dr. Herbert H. Koepf, a soil science professor from Europe, at an Omaha-area workshop for organic farmers and others from the Midwest. Also appearing at the all-day August session was Pierre Ott, a French agronomist now teaching at the University of California at…
Read MoreIowa Farmers Report Organic Methods Guarantee Good Crops in Drought Years 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum Although Southwest Iowa has had two dry summers in a row, the operators of a rolling 720-acre farm near Tabor hardly noticed the drought as they harvested good corn and soybean crops both years. “Our corn last year, despite the drought, made 90 bushels an acre,” Adolph Codr reported. “We have corn…
Read MoreNebraska Cattle Feeder Sells Organically-Grown Beef Direct 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum When you see Steve Groeteke pulling his mixer wagon slowly past cattle falling into line at the bunks at one end of a big hillside feedlot, it looks like any of hundreds of similar cattle setups in Northeast Nebraska. But a closer look shows this operation near North Bend is in a…
Read MoreSouth Dakota Organic Livestock Producers Tell Their Veterinarian: ‘We Didn’t Switch Veterinarians: We Just Don’t Need You Anymore’ 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum A strong belief that caring for the land means farming without chemicals has maintained the high productivity of a South Dakota crop and livestock farm for the family that has operated it since it was homesteaded. Walter Hobbie, who now operates the original farm northwest of Flandreau, has lived on it since…
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