Organic community meets with USDA on Farm Bill

At a critical time when appropriations to other program threaten some of the hard-won provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill that support organic agriculture, key leaders in the organic community met with USDA officials to discuss how to safeguard and implement these provisions. Groups that met with the feds included the Organic Farming Research Foundation, National Organic Coalition, Center for Food Safety, Rodale Institute, National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), Food and Water Watch, Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Florida Organic Growers and the Organic Trade Association, which arranged the meeting.