Plants adapt genetically over time to the special conditions of organic farming. This has been demonstrated in a long-term study conducted at the University of Bonn. The researchers planted barley ...

Journal Reference: Andersen et al. Feasibility of new breeding techniques for organic farming. Trends in Plant Science, May 2015 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2015.04.011 ...

To test how plants fare under different growing conditions, Autar K. Mattoo of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his colleagues set up two patches of tomato plants at a Maryland farm site.

According to the Organic Seed Alliance’s 2016 report, State of Organic Seed, public and private investments in organic plant breeding and other organic seed research have increased by $22 million in ...

Amendments to Alberta’s Agricultural Operation Practices Act (AOPA) now permit digestate and “select organic material” from ...

The results “suggest that organic farming could enhance the pollination service in agricultural landscapes, which is important for developing a sustainable agriculture. The method made it possible to ...

Previous studies back up the benefits of organic production to pollinators. A 2011 study found that a transition from conventional to organic farming can rapidly improve the number of plant and ...

Organic ingredients are the byproducts of plant and animal processing, including alfalfa meal, soybean meal, cottonseed meal, blood meal, bone meal, feather meal, composted manure, and others.