The Natural Analysis Hub
By Brian Geier, OFRF Communications Manger. This text was initially revealed within the Fall 2025 Natural Broadcaster by Marbleseed.
Day-after-day, farmers make selections that may have short-term and long-term results on our farms. And as natural farmers, we rely on complicated, intertwining relationships amongst all of the transferring elements of an natural system to work with us: vegetation, animals, soils, local weather, microbes, staff, bugs, processors, customers, and extra. To place it mildly, good info is essential for our success, and fallacious or misguided info might be expensive.
Many farmers will let you know that the perfect info comes from our experiences on the land. “A farmer’s footstep is the perfect fertilizer,” they are saying. Our second-best supply of data, mirrored in survey after survey, is the data farmers get from different farmers. Third could arguably be what we discover utilizing the web. However there, we danger working into an amazing array of sources of information with various levels of reliability, which can or will not be accessible or helpful to anybody, not to mention natural farmers!
Introducing the Natural Analysis Hub
A brand new software seeks to treatment this overwhelm, and it’s worthy of a detailed look. The Natural Analysis Hub, launched in early 2025 by the Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF), is a curated assortment of scientific and technical sources to assist natural farmers perceive and clear up their challenges. It’s a gateway to analysis and sources which might be relevant to natural farmers, and it’s a connection place between farmers, researchers, technical service suppliers, and extension brokers.
Ohio dairy farmer Jordan Settlage, who serves on the Natural Stewardship Council for OFRF, described his first expertise testing out the “Hub” at a current advisory assembly:
