Organic Survey & Carbon Fuels Standard
Organic Survey & Carbon Fuels Standard. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.
Small and mid-sized organic farmers were the focus of a study on how to improve their abilities to market their product. Miles McElvoy of the National Organic Program explains one of the recommendations available.
MCELVOY: To get resources to help smaller farmers bundle their products into groups so that they could work with other growers to sell into a CSA type of a model. There’s models like that around the United States and they’ve been very beneficial where you don’t have a small farm taking on all the marketing responsibilities but they can work with other growers in a cooperative manner to get their products into a more direct marketing channels, get a higher price for their product so those kinds of things can be very beneficial for small and medium sized farms.
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That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.