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Category Archives: Organic Seed Alliance
OSA Provides Comments to NOSB on Seed Integrity
Last week OSA submitted comments to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) on the issue of organic seed integrity. The comments were in response to a discussion document on seed purity developed by the NOSB’s GMO ad hoc subcommittee. OSA’s … Continue reading
New Organic Seed Book to be Published in December
OSA’s Dr. John Navazio has written a new book on vegetable seed production. The book is published by Chelsea Green and will hit bookstores on December 3, 2012. You can pre-order your copy today. The Organic Seed Grower is a … Continue reading
OSA and Sierra Seed Cooperative Teach On-Farm Breeding
Sierra Seed Cooperative had the pleasure of hosting Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) to teach a Fundamentals of On-Farm Plant Breeding Workshop this past weekend. We had a full classroom of seed-savers and farmers from all over Northern California come out … Continue reading
Faces of Public Plant Breeding: Brook Brouwer
Brook Brouwer grew up on a small sheep farm on Lopez Island, WA. He graduated with a B.A. in Biology from Colorado College in 2008. In January 2012 he began working toward a PhD in Crop Science, in Dr. Stephen … Continue reading
Faces of Public Plant Breeding: Michael Mazourek
Michael Mazourek is the Calvin Noyes Keeney assistant professor of Plant Breeding in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University. Dr Mazourek works on the genetic improvement of peppers, cucurbits and snap peas for disease resistance, organic … Continue reading
Faces of Public Plant Breeding: Adrienne Shelton
Adrienne Shelton is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, earning a Master’s and PhD with Dr. Bill Tracy. Her research includes analyzing the inheritance of genetic traits that confer high planting density tolerance in sweet corn … Continue reading
Remembering the ‘People’s Department’
There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, … Continue reading
In Celebration of Public Plant Breeding
This week Organic Seed Alliance is celebrating the next generation of organic plant breeders. These breeders are improving organic seed to meet the changing needs of farmers and the broader organic community. In the days that follow you will read … Continue reading
Field Updates from OSA’s Organic Carrot Breeding
OSA researchers have been busy in the field the past month with our organic carrot breeding work. We are involved in two major organic carrot breeding projects –the Carrot Improvement for Organic Agriculture (CIOA) project and the Northern Organic Vegetable … Continue reading
OSA Delivers Comments to AC21 on Coexistence
Earlier this week OSA attended USDA’s latest (and maybe last) AC21 meeting in Washington, DC, to provide public comments and gauge where the current discussion on coexistence is headed. USDA’s Advisory Committee on Biotechnology & 21st Century Agriculture (AC21) was … Continue reading
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