FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2026 — The Natural Farming Analysis Basis, Worldwide Recent Produce Affiliation, Natural Farmers Affiliation, the Natural Commerce Affiliation, and the Nationwide Natural Coalition are proud to have led a letter despatched to the Senate Agriculture Committee as we speak in regards to the significance of supporting natural analysis, particularly the Natural Agriculture Analysis Extension Initiative (OREI) and the Natural Transitions Program (ORG), within the Farm Invoice.
These Nationwide Institute of Meals and Agriculture (NIFA) packages are the solely two devoted natural analysis packages beneath the USDA. OREI is the flagship aggressive grant program devoted to natural agricultural analysis. It helps analysis, schooling, and extension packages that improve the flexibility of established natural producers and processors to develop and market high-quality merchandise. ORG awards aggressive grants to enhance the competitiveness of natural livestock and crop producers, in addition to those that are adopting natural practices, via analysis, extension, and better schooling. Each packages are vital to advancing innovation, productiveness, and long-term competitiveness inside the natural market, projected to develop from $76.6 billion in 2025 to over $100 billion by 2030. In addition they produce beneficial assets for non-organic farmers keen on adopting natural practices.
The Senate Farm Invoice will construct off the progress the Home Farm Invoice made for natural analysis, most notably, reauthorizing OREI and offering first-time authorization for the Natural Transitions Program, which was renamed to the Researching the Transition to Natural Program (RTOP). The latter was an ideal accomplishment as a result of this system was beforehand receiving funding as an unauthorized program. Since OREI is already a Farm Invoice-derived program, which means that each devoted natural analysis packages at the moment are tied to the Farm Invoice, and any modifications to both program should successfully be executed via the once-in-five-year legislative car.
The letter was supported by main manufacturers, comparable to Mondelez World LLC, Driscoll’s, Natural Valley, Stoneyfield Natural, and United Pure Meals, Inc.. It was additionally supported by a wide selection of farm teams and analysis organizations, such because the Texas Worldwide Produce Affiliation, the “Tri-Societies”, Society of Nematologists, and Arizona State’s Swette Middle for Sustainable Meals Programs. In fact, there was additionally nice assist from natural teams throughout the nation, just like the Iowa Natural Affiliation, Pennsylvania Licensed Natural, California Licensed Natural Farmers, the Northeast Natural Farming Affiliation-Interstate Council, and others. All of this exhibits that there’s broad acknowledgment throughout the meals and agricultural house that extra devoted natural analysis is required to make sure natural farmers have the very best instruments and practices to capitalize on the explosive progress within the natural market.
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About Natural Farming Analysis Basis
The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF), headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, with a distant group primarily based throughout the U.S., works to foster the advance and widespread adoption of natural farming methods. OFRF cultivates natural analysis, schooling, and federal insurance policies that carry extra farmers and acreage into natural manufacturing. For extra details about OFRF, please go to our web site: www.ofrf.org.
Media Contact:
Ashley Dulaney, Communications Director, OFRF
[email protected], (518) 310-6771
P.O. Field 440, Santa Cruz, CA 95061
