FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Functions at the moment are open for a brand new cohort of farmer-researchers to obtain technical help in conducting revolutionary on-farm analysis trials throughout the nation
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Oct. 15, 2025 — The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF) is worked up 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 attempt new practices, inputs, varieties, or animal breeds that may enhance profitability and environmental sustainability. Functions are open October fifteenth by December third, 2025. Chosen individuals will likely be introduced in early 2026.
“By partnering with OFRF, we get to create a challenge that may assist us decide the perfect cowl crops to resolve a few of our soil well being points. We get professional recommendation and suggestions by all phases of the challenge, from planning, implementing, information assortment, and decoding 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 handle the particular challenges that licensed natural and transitioning-to-organic growers face, it’s important that farmers are on the middle of efforts to determine issues and trial options. The FLT program helps farmers in creating 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 in addition to share the expertise and data gained with different producers.
“There isn’t any restrict to the fascinating questions and considerate concerns that come up from natural farmers throughout the nation. Our work at OFRF is to assist convey the scope of the trial to an achievable stage, grounded within the scientific methodology. 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 steerage 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 staff based mostly throughout the U.S., works to foster the advance and widespread adoption of natural farming techniques. OFRF cultivates natural analysis, schooling, and federal insurance policies that convey 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
ashley@ofrf.orf, (518) 310-6771
P.O. Field 440, Santa Cruz, CA 95061
