Source: SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 5/23/18

The Organic Farmers Association is happy the U.S. Department of Agriculture has terminated its plan to establish a mandatory national research and promotion program for organics. Jennifer Taylor, Vice President of the OFA, says, “Organic farmers already fulfill a heavy load of paperwork for their annual organic certification. Additional federally-mandated paperwork would have been overly burdensome, especially for the 75 percent of certified organic farmers who would have been exempt from the checkoff.”

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