One-of-a-kind platform presents curated, science-based natural farming instruments and assets to assist farmers discover trusted, sensible options to on-farm challenges.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 7, 2025 — The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF) in the present day introduced the launch of the Natural Analysis Hub, a first-of-its-kind on-line platform created to serve the wants of natural and transitioning farmers throughout the USA—providing trusted, science-based instruments to unravel actual on-farm challenges.
Accessible at organicresearchhub.org, the Natural Analysis Hub brings collectively an unprecedented assortment of curated assets, all searchable by manufacturing subject, crop class, area, key phrase, and extra. The platform contains factsheets, analysis summaries, webinars, guidebooks, movies, and different technical instruments gathered from the nation’s high agricultural establishments and natural organizations. It additionally homes the whole library of almost 200 remaining stories from OFRF-funded analysis initiatives, making a long time of farmer-informed analysis simply accessible in a single place.
“We created the Natural Analysis Hub to fulfill farmers the place they’re,” mentioned Dr. Heather Estrada, OFRF’s analysis & schooling senior scientist and architect of the platform. “Producers don’t have time to dig by tutorial journals or outdated PDFs. They want credible, sensible assets they will use within the area—and that’s precisely what this instrument gives.”
Along with superior filtering and key phrase search capabilities, customers can signal as much as obtain personalized notifications when new content material is added to their area or space of curiosity. The Hub additionally features a nationwide Natural Extension Listing, serving to join farmers with trusted agricultural professionals and researchers of their communities.
“There’s quite a lot of noise on-line. The Hub cuts by that,” mentioned Jordan Settlage, an natural dairy farmer at Settlage & Settlage Farms in St. Mary’s, Ohio. “I used to be altering our compost administration and had some questions. In lower than a minute, the Hub helped me discover precisely what I wanted—from credible sources I belief. That’s an enormous deal. I can use it to make actual selections for our farm.”
With no comparable instrument at present obtainable, the Natural Analysis Hub addresses a long-standing hole in how natural analysis is accessed and utilized. Though natural now accounts for greater than 6% of whole U.S. meals gross sales and 15% of all produce gross sales, analysis funding for natural agriculture stays disproportionately low—receiving lower than 2% of USDA analysis {dollars} and fewer than 1% of the Agricultural Analysis Service’s finances. OFRF’s personal Nationwide Natural Analysis Agenda (NORA) continues to focus on the urgent want for regionally related, farmer-informed options. The Natural Analysis Hub is a direct response to that want.
“That is about entry,” mentioned Brise Tencer, OFRF’s govt director. “For too lengthy, natural farmers have needed to piece collectively data on their very own—usually with out institutional help or public funding. However what’s thrilling is that natural analysis doesn’t simply serve natural farmers—it’s helpful to any grower searching for wholesome soils, resilient programs, and non-chemical options. The Hub displays our dedication to placing dependable, farmer-focused instruments straight into their arms.”
The Hub options content material from main organizations, together with the SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Analysis and Schooling) program, dozens of land-grant universities, and nonprofit companions corresponding to ATTRA (Applicable Expertise Switch for Rural Areas) and The Natural Middle. It’s going to proceed to develop as new content material is added and extra researchers and extension brokers contribute their work.
The Natural Analysis Hub is reside now at organicresearchhub.org.
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Concerning the Natural Farming Analysis Basis
The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF), headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, with a distant crew primarily based throughout the U.S., works to foster the development and widespread adoption of natural farming programs. OFRF cultivates natural analysis, schooling, and federal insurance policies that deliver extra farmers and acreage into natural manufacturing. For extra details about OFRF, please go to our web site: www.ofrf.org.
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