FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Functions are actually open for a brand new cohort of farmer-researchers to obtain technical help in conducting progressive on-farm analysis trials throughout the nation
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Oct. 15, 2025 — The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF) is happy to announce that functions are open for the following cohort of natural farmers who will likely be main on-farm analysis trials with OFRF technical help in 2026.
OFRF’s Farmer-Led Trials (FLT) Program supplies technical help and a small quantity of funding to a choose cohort of natural and transitioning-to-organic growers every year. Constructed within the spirit of curiosity and collaboration, the FLT program supplies help to farmers in order that they will strive new practices, inputs, varieties, or animal breeds that may enhance profitability and environmental sustainability. Functions are open October fifteenth by way of December third, 2025. Chosen individuals will likely be introduced in early 2026.
“By partnering with OFRF, we get to create a challenge that can assist us decide the easiest cowl crops to unravel a few of our soil well being points. We get knowledgeable recommendation and suggestions by way of all phases of the challenge, from planning, implementing, information assortment, and deciphering outcomes,” Tim Colby, farmer at Colby Farms in Papillion, Nebraska, and former participant in OFRF’s FLT Program.
Natural farming takes a substantial amount of dedication, monetary funding, and steady trial and error to adapt to an array of challenges, together with pests, ailments, soil administration, and local weather change. To deal with the particular challenges that licensed natural and transitioning-to-organic growers face, it’s important that farmers are on the heart of efforts to establish issues and trial options. The FLT program helps farmers in growing a viable trial plan, supplies help and accountability in information assortment, after which helps farmers compile and assess outcomes on the finish of the trial. This equips farmers to not solely implement the findings into their very own farm practices but additionally to share the expertise and data gained with different producers.
“There is no such thing as a restrict to the attention-grabbing questions and considerate issues that come up from natural farmers throughout the nation. Our work at OFRF is to assist deliver the scope of the trial to an achievable degree, grounded within the scientific technique. With the outcomes of every trial, farmers could make a small, correct assertion about what befell on their farm. Every assertion is sort of a brick, including one piece at a time to construct the muse of our understanding,” Mary Hathaway, OFRF Analysis & Training Program Supervisor.
To study extra or apply for OFRF’s Farmer-Led Trials Program, please go to our program web page for updates and to learn testimonials from earlier cohorts. Moreover, we encourage curious farmers to think about attending the FLT Digital Discussion board on Oct twenty first, the place three FLT farmers will share outcomes of their trials, and to take a look at OFRF’s free guidebook, Farmers’ Information to Conducting On-Farm Analysis, for steering on structuring your farm experiments so the outcomes are helpful, dependable, and repeatable.
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About 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 advance 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.
Media Contact:
Ashley Dulaney, Communications Director, OFRF
[email protected], (518) 310-6771
P.O. Field 440, Santa Cruz, CA 95061
