NEAFA recently wrote US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to encourage the finalization of the Origin of Livestock Rule, which serves as guidance to the Organic Foods Production Act. “As you know, there is a vibrant organic dairy farm community, a significant part of the Northeast’s dairy industry, that has grown to serve the organic milk demand based on the rules established in the Organic Foods Production Act,” said NEAFA President Danielle Penny Stroop. “Unfortunately, the Origin of Livestock Rule remains unresolved, thus posing a significant threat to the stability of the organic dairy farming community.”
To read the letter in its entirety, click here:
www.northeastalliance.com/s/Vilsack-organic-rule-10-13-21.pdf