National Organic Directory, 1997. $44.95 + $6 s&h. Provides information
about labeling, certification and laws pertinent to organic products. Lists
organic farmers, wholesalers, farm suppliers, resource groups, publications
and certification organizations, including brief descriptions and contact
information. Chapters describe issues important to organic agriculture, such
as organic food exports, certification, National Organic Standards, U.S.
state organic laws, organic marketing and the internet. Community Alliance
with Family Farmers, PO Box 363, Davis, CA 95617, 916-756-8518,=
nod@caff.org.
Wallace Institute's Web site. Homepage features a description of the
Institute and its agenda of leadership, policy research, and information.
The site has/will have links to the Institute's programs: Policy Studies
Program, Agriculture Policy Project, Ward Sinclair Memorial Internship, and
Education Outreach. Alternative Agriculture News is available at the site,
which will also soon include information about and summaries of additional
publications: American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, Policy Studies
Program Reports, Occasional Papers, Annual Reports, and the Henry A. Wallace
Annual Lecture.
http://www.hawiaa.org
Sustainable Farming Connection Web site. Two former editors of The New Farm
magazine have launched a Web site that offers innovative production and
marketing stories to help you cut costs, improve soil, protect the
environment and add value to healthy food. It includes commentary by rural
writers, timely news and action alerts, archived material, and links to
other key sites, as well as farmer forums. For more information contact:
Christopher Shirley, Committee for Sustainable Farm Publishing, 609 S. Front
St., Allentown PA 18103, 610-791-9683, cdshirley@aol.com.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/farming-connection
Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Web site. AARC, a
wholly-owned corporation of the USDA, is a venture capital firm that makes
equity investments in companies to help commercialize biobased industrial
products (non-food, non-feed) from agricultural and forestry materials and
animal byproducts. Most clients are small, rural-based firms.
http://www.usda.gov/aarc/
WASTENOT listserv. An unmoderated discussion and forum for professional
exchange among those in the research of, management, design, implementation,
processing, treatment, analysis, regulation, marketing and distribution, or
usage of organic wastes and the compostable materials from industrial,
commercial, municipal, or agricultural sources. To subscribe, send the
following command in the body of an email with no subject to:
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
subscribe wastenot firstname lastname
CRP Hotline. The Center for Rural Affairs of Wathill, Nebraska has
re-activated its Conservation Options Hotline to assist farmers and ranchers
wanting to enroll in the Conservation Reserve Program, the new Environmental
Quality Incentives Program, and the Conservation Farm Option. The hotline
number is 402-994-2021, and is staffed by Duane Hovorka.
National Pesticide Telecommunications Network (NPTN). NPTN provides
objective, science-based information about a wide variety of
pesticide-related subjects including: pesticide products, pesticide
poisonings, toxicology, and environmental chemistry. Sponsored by Oregon
State University and the EPA. Available to any caller in the U.S., Puerto
Rico, and the Virgin Islands. NPTN can connect callers directly with the
Oregon Poison Control Center or the National Animal Poison Control Center,
and can direct callers for pesticide incident investigations, safety
practices, clean-up and disposal, and laboratory analyses. NPTN can be
reached 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
1-800-858-7378, nptn@ace.orst.edu.
COMING EVENTS
Contact CSAS office for more information.
1997
July 23-26 =97 Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Conference=
(focusing
on ecosystem management within watersheds), Toronto, Ontario
July 30-31 =97 Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture 10th Anniversary
Conference,=20
Ames, IA
Aug. 2 =97 Center for Rural Affairs Annual Meeting, Norfolk, NE
Aug. 3-6 =97 5th North American Agroforestry Conference - Exploring the
Opportunities for Agroforestry in Changing Rural Landscapes, Ithaca, NY
http://www.missouri.edu/~afta/afta_home.html=20
Aug. 4-5 =97 Organic Farming Research Foundation Conference - Organic Rules:
Are We Ready? Oakland, CA
Aug. 20-23 =97 International Symposium on Sustainable Agricultural=
Technology,
Bejing, China
Aug. 27-30 =97 Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers National
Conference, Portland, OR
Sep. 15-19 =97 International Symposium on Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming,
Xi'an, China=20
http://soils.ecn.purdue.edu/~sedf97/sedf97.html=20
Oct. 6-7 =97 Agricultural Research Institute 46th Annual Meeting -
Agricultural Research: Funding Now to Ensure Food for the Future, Rockville,=
MD
Nov. 2-6 =97 3rd North American Workshop of Farming Systems Research &
Extension Association - Food & Natural Resource Systems: Integrating
Diversity, Inquiry, & Action, Mt. Hood, OR
Dec. 1-4 =97 3rd IFOAM-Asia Scientific Conference - Food Security in Harmony
with Nature, Bangalore, India=20
1998
Jan. 9-10 =97 Great Plains Vegetable Conference, St. Joseph, MO
Mar. 5-6 =97 National SARE Conference - Building on a Decade of Sustainable
Agriculture Research & Education: Sharing Experiences to Improve Our
Agriculture, Austin, TX
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/san/
Did You Know...
Every American annually uses and average of 84 tons of Earth's resources to
support his/her lifestyle, the World Resources Institute said.
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Pam Murray, Coordinator
Center for Grassland Studies and
Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
PO Box 830949
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583-0949
phone: 402-472-9383
fax: 402-472-4104
e-mail: csas001@unlvm.unl.edu