Resources for NOC Pre-NOSB Meeting

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Pennsylvania Ballroom, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Pittsburgh City Center

One Bigelow Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15219  

Farmer Updates

  1. Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers of Pittsburgh

DC Update

  1. Agenda for DC Update

  2. 2018 Farm Bill: Organic Score Card

  3. 2018 Farm Bill Implementation Chart

  4. Enforcement Rulemaking Summary - USDA

  5. Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Summary for Organic Priorities

  6. How Farmers are Fighting Climate Change - Representative Pingree

  7. Climate Stewardship Act - Senator Booker

  8. Origin of Livestock Proposed Rule - 60 day comment period closes on December 2, 2019

  9. NOC Action Alert on Origin of Livestock

  10. Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance Resource Page - Origin of Livestock

  11. OTA Origin of Livestock Toolkit

  12. Repair the Public Private Partnership in Organic - OTA

Gene Editing in Organic Agriculture

  1. OFA Letter to Secretary Perdue

  2. NOC Talking Points - Gene Editing is Prohibited in Organic

  3. Gene Editing - Unintended Consequences

  4. OTA Comments to NOSB on Excluded Methods

Lunch Discussion Group - Organic Agriculture, Climate Change & Continuous Improvement

  1. Organic Farming Research Foundation Guidebook - Organic Practices for Climate Mitigation, Adaptation, and Carbon Sequestration

  2. NOC talking points for Members of Congress - Organic Agriculture and Climate Change

  3. Organic Center Study - Organic Cuts Agriculture’s Contribution to Climate Change

  4. Friends of the Earth Briefing Paper: Pesticides and Soil Health

  5. NOC Comment to NOSB on Climate Change, Soil Health, and Highly Soluble Nutrients - Fall 2019

  6. Open Comment Period until Nov. 22 - House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Lunch Discussion Group - GMO Vaccines

  1. NOSB Livestock Subcommittee Excluded Methods Proposal

Lunch Discussion Group - Organic Dairy Roundtable

  1. Comparison of Contaminants in Organic and Conventional Milk - Emory University

  2. Organic Valley - Cost analysis of dairy heifer replacement by DVM Greg Brickner

Race, Land Ownership, & Organic Farming

  1. The Great Land Robbery - The Shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms

  2. Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans: Land and Power (SARE)

  3. 2012 Census of Agriculture: Characteristics of All Farms and Farms with Organic Sales (NASS); See page 5 for farm operator demographic information.

    A summary of the census data is available here.

  4. 2017 Census of Agriculture: Characteristics of All Farms and Farms with Organic Sales (NASS); See page 5 for farm operator demographic information

  5. Article about Agricultural Justice Project - by Elizabeth Henderson

  6. NOC Statement on Racial Equity - DRAFT

Impacts of Energy Infrastructure on Organic Operations

  1. The Fracking Endgame Locked Into Plastics, Pollution and Climate Chaos (Food and Water Watch)

  2. Fracking and the Food System (Food and Water Watch)

  3. Natural Gas Pipelines: Problems from Beginning to End (Food and Water Watch)

  4. Agricultural Impact Mitigation Provisions for Organic Farms (OEFFA)

  5. Organic farms near drilling activity in the U.S. and Ohio (FracTracker Alliance)

  6. 11% of organic farms near drilling in US, potentially 31% in future (FracTracker Alliance)

  7. Health vs. Power – Risking America’s Food for Energy (FracTracker Alliance)

  8. FracTracker Alliance’s Frac Sand Mining webpage

  9. Folder of Maps and Figures from FrackTracker

Thank you to our meeting co-sponsors: