Sentences with phrase «make organic livestock»
Recent developments and guidance from the National Organic Program (NOP) are helping to make organic livestock certification smoother and more consistent, but it has been suggested that OMRI could list more livestock products in order to simplify the process for certifiers and transitioning farmers.
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We also make an effort to donate all leftover bread to charitable organizations, schools, and non-profits, with the remainder going into organic livestock feed.
«The federal organic regulations make it very clear that all organic livestock must have access to the outdoors and that ruminants, like dairy cows, must have access to pasture,» Mark A. Kastel, Senior Farm Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute said in 2014.
The organic certification industry's «dirty little secret,» they write, is that «organic crops and livestock are not tested in Canada before they are certified, thus making organic certification essentially meaningless.»
Organic crops and livestock are not tested in Canada before they are certified, thus making organic certification essentially meaningless
In 2008, like all other conventional prices, the price for organic feed for dairy cows and other livestock shot up so quickly — without milk processors and marketers paying farmers more to make up the gap — that for the first time in history, conventional dairy farmers were making more than organic (conventional milk prices were at unprecedented highs)!