Thu, 03/08/2018 – 3:06pm This week’s blog entry features a paper drafted by Dr. John Ikerd for his keynote address at the 2018 Organic Grain Conference. Held on February 1 in Champaign, IL, the Organic Grain Conference drew a crowd of 145 farmers, researchers, educators, advocates, and industry representatives for a day of learning and […]
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Heirloom, Organic, and Heritage, Oh my! – An Interview with Jill Brockman-Cummings
Submitted by Taidghin O’Brien on Fri, 01/26/2018 – 11:10am As all of us at The Land Connection are gearing up for our 2nd Annual Organic Grain Conference & Trade Show on February 1st here in Champaign, I thought it was only fitting to feature organic grains in this week’s blog. I found out about The […]
How the USDA has invested in TLC
Submitted by Sarah Simeziane on Mon, 11/26/2018 – 3:48pm Back in September at the National Direct Ag Marketing summit, I got the chance to present a poster on TLC’s work combining grants to bolster our farmers market and food access programming (more about that trip in a past blog entry). In a nutshell, our poster […]
OGC 2020 Recap
That was fun. Let’s do it again next year! Thank you to the nearly 200 people that joined us in Champaign, IL for two full days of discussion, networking, and knowledge sharing at the 4th annual Organic Grain Conference & Trade Show, February 5-6, 2020. While the vast majority of you joined us from central […]
Winter Conferences – We Become Family
Submitted by Mallory Krieger on Mon, 01/28/2019 – 5:15pm What a wonderful weekend I just spent in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Ograin Conference. Ograin is the sister conference to our own Organic Grain Conference. It is organized by Dr. Erin Silva, Harriet Behar, and Jody Padgham. This year, the conference theme was organic no-till. Dr. […]
The World Is Changing, Meet the New Boss – An Organic Solution
Jeff Moyer, former Executive Director of the Rodale Institute, and one of the nation’s leading organic no-till experts, discusses the place organics has in our food system in this changing world.
