Seeds of Success: Crop-Livestock Integration - Organic Farming Research Foundation
Join OFRF for an engaging webinar on Integrated Crop Livestock Systems in organic agriculture, and hear from experienced farmers.
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The following is copied and pasted from the Organic Farming Research Foundation's email announcing this webinar.
"Are you an organic farmer that is interested in using your livestock in your crop rotation? Are you wondering how others have overcome some of the complexities of integrating your farm system? Would you like to hear directly from farmers who have experience in this topic?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then join us on Thursday, June 26th from 2-3 pm ET for our Seeds of Success session: Crop Livestock Integration. Crop-livestock integration is a holistic system that integrates the production of cash crops and livestock on the same piece of land or within the same farming operation. While farms implementing crop-livestock integration can lower input costs and reap many benefits, this integration can also lead to increased complexity, especially for farmers who must adhere to National Organic Program rules and regulations.
This Seeds of Success will be an engaging opportunity for farmers to come together to ask questions and share their lived experience in integrating crops and livestock in their production systems. In this session we will feature three farmers that have built resilience and a dynamic organic system.
- Ben Coerper, Wild Harmony Farm
- Tomia MacQueen, Wildflower Farm
- Raymond Hain, Grain Place Foundation
REGISTER HERE https://ofrf.org/event/seeds-of-success-crop-livestock-integration/
Ready to dig in now? OFRF has developed a Crop-Livestock Integration series informed by interviews with highly experienced organic producers across the US whose farming operations have benefited from integrated crop and livestock production. The key topics include: The Benefits of Crop-Livestock Integration, Food Safety, Infrastructure, and Crop Rotations. This series of resources continues to be one of the most visited resources, and our upcoming webinar will help build on the foundation of knowledge that farmers can access on this high-interest and under-represented system. https://ofrf.org/crop-livestock-integration/"