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Stay up-to-date on the latest from OCIA International, our operators, and the organic industry.News: Updates from the Organic Industry
We’ve compiled the latest news from the organic industry to help you stay up-to-date on industry innovations and regulatory updates.
OCIA Family Spotlight: Pure Prairie Farm
Jim Rowh, 66, an organic farmer from Clayton, Kan., is among those with 30 years of experience farming organically in the middle of the United States. The area has its own challenges, regarding the production and marketing of organic products, and transitioning...
OCIA Family Spotlight: Sumiya Brewery
Three hours from Tokyo by Shinkansen, bullet train, and a few local trains later, you would arrive at a processor tied to tradition. Toshio Sumiya (right,) president of the Sumiya Bunjiro Brewery Co., Ltd., shows Kazuko Moriyama, OCIA Japan's representative director,...
OCIA Family Spotlight: Hoculak Family Farm
A farmer's work ethic gets tested between drought and floods. Drought in 2002 and cattle markets closing in 2003 took everything Ward Hoculak had on his Lamont, Alberta farm. It was "start over" for the fourth generation, 43-year-old farmer. The world closed its...
OCIA Family Spotlight: Diddley-Squash Farm, Earth Friendly Farm
Thursday, May 1, 2014 The newest member of the OCIA International Board of Directors is no stranger to the organization or farming. Susan Linkletter, 44, grew up on a dairy in New Brunswick, Canada, with farming in six generations of her family on both sides. "So I...
OCIA Family Spotlight: Wagon Wheel Farm
Picturesque Family Farms have Helping Hands Across Generations The Wagon Wheel Farm carries on that image. Mike and Karen Ostry and their 11 children farm land that was settled near the rolling hills of Bruno, Neb., in 1874. The children are the sixth generation...
OCIA Ends Annual Meeting with Renewed Focus on Family Farms
LINCOLN, NE: One of the few member-owned organic certifiers held its annual meeting in Texas for the first time, from Feb. 5 to Feb. 7, 2014. The Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA), an international organic certifier, convened its Annual General...
Nebraska Organic Family Farm Recognized at OCIA Annual Meeting
LINCOLN, NE: The Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) would like to invite the public to join them from 3:15pm-5:15pm on Thursday, February 6th, 2014 at the LaQuinta Inns & Suites (located on 303 Blum) in San Antonio, Texas. Mark Kastel, Co-founder and...
Free Organic Workshops Offered During OCIA Annual Meeting
LINCOLN, NE: The Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) would like to invite the public to join them from 3:15pm-5:15pm on Thursday, February 6th, 2014 at the LaQuinta Inns & Suites (located on 303 Blum) in San Antonio, Texas. Mark Kastel, Co-founder...
2014 OCIA Annual General Membership Meeting
Join us February 5th-7th, 2014 at the San Antonio LaQuinta Inns Suites (located on 303 Blum) for a fun and educational experience. You won't want to miss hearing Mark Kastel, Co-founder and Senior Farm Policy Analyst of The Cornucopia Institute talk about maintaining...