Special Field Day and Celebration at OSA’s Research Farm
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) will host a community field day and variety tasting on October 14, 2015, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Chimacum Farm Collaborative. The event celebrates the first...
View Article‘Seeds of Time’ Film Provides Community Discussion on Seed Conservation
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) and Washington State University (WSU) will co-host a screening of Seeds of Time on Sunday, October 25, 2015, at the Rose Theater in Port Townsend, Washington. The film will...
View ArticleMontana Organic Seed Workshop to be Held Dec. 3
OSA is leading a workshop for specialty crop growers interested in learning how to conduct organic variety trials on their farm. The workshop is offered as part of the Montana Organic Association’s...
View ArticleFirst-Ever Northwest Organic Plant Breeding Symposium
OSA will host a symposium this winter to identify opportunities and priorities for advancing organic plant breeding in the Pacific Northwest. The symposium will be held in conjunction with our 8th...
View ArticleUSDA Proposes More Oversight of GE Wheat: Is it Enough?
Wheat fields in Northern California. Photo credit: Organic Seed Alliance UPDATE 12/11/15: The USDA officially announced that it will require permits for all future GE wheat field trials. Thanks to the...
View ArticleNational Organic Seed Growers Conference Draws Hundreds of Participants
Organic Seed Alliance’s (OSA) 8th Organic Seed Growers Conference drew a record turnout last weekend, with more than 500 participants attending the event in Corvallis, Oregon, from February 4 – 6,...
View ArticleNew Seed Internship Program Announced
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) and the Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture (MESA) are proud to announce the launch of the Seed Internship Program, the first of its kind in the U.S. The...
View ArticleWe Need Your Help to Stop this Awful GMO Labeling Bill
The Senate will soon vote on a bill that will prohibit mandatory GMO labeling. This bill, introduced by Sen. Roberts of Kansas, will prohibit states from requiring the labeling of genetically...
View ArticleOSA’s Brook Brouwer to Join WSU Extension
Organic Seed Alliance is pleased to announce that Research and Education Associate Brook Brouwer will soon join Washington State University as its Director of San Juan County Extension. In his new...
View ArticleLearn How to Breed Crops in Montana
Adrienne Shelton discusses ‘Who Gets Kissed?’ sweet corn with Doug Baty of Wild Plum Farm in Dixon, Montana — one of the September field tour sites. Join the Northern Organic Vegetable Improvement...
View ArticleJust Released! State of Organic Seed, 2016
We’re proud to announce our first five-year update on the status of organic seed in the US. The report, State of Organic Seed, 2016, is part of an ongoing project to measure progress in meeting the...
View ArticleNew Course on Organic Seed Now Available!
Organic seed growers need more mentorship and courses that are comprehensive in scope and combine theoretical and practical instruction. To address this gap, OSA teamed up with the Multinational...
View ArticleTalking Organic Seed in Washington, DC
OSA just returned from an inspiring National Organic Coalition (NOC) membership meeting in Washington, DC, which included a day on Capitol Hill educating members of Congress on a number of organic...
View ArticleCongress can do better on GMO labeling
Both the Senate and House have passed the “DARK Act” (S. 764), a controversial bill that’s been debated for several years now. The bill is being touted as a “compromise” but falls woefully short on...
View ArticleLearn How to Grow Seed in Montana
Join Organic Seed Alliance in Montana this September for two hands-on trainings. The first event will teach farmers how to grow high-quality seed using organic farming methods and which specialty seed...
View ArticleWe Have a New Executive Director!
We’re proud to announce Cara Loriz as our new executive director! Cara joins OSA this month with an impressive background in nonprofit development; small business management and public advocacy; and...
View ArticleOver 700,000 People Tell Gov’t to Block Seed Mergers
As the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meets today to examine consolidation in the agriculture seed and chemical industry, nine groups have submitted petitions signed by 708,000 people urging the...
View ArticleSeed consolidation continues. So should resistance.
The seed industry is one of the most consolidated in agriculture, and it’s getting worse. Bayer recently announced that it reached a merger agreement with Monsanto, which will create the world’s...
View ArticleReports Describe Plant Breeding Priorities for Organic
Michael Mazourek of Cornell University explains one of his pepper projects as part of an organic plant breeding course in Montana. Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) and Cornell University today announced the...
View ArticleOrganic Seed is on the Menu at Next NOSB Meeting
The fall meeting for the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is just around the corner. Join OSA in St. Louis, MO, from November 15th through the 18th, 2016, for timely discussions and public...
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