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Re: comments on UDSA/NOP cost and benefits to organic farmers and handlers



The USDA seems to want to help the small farmer so why the tax on the small
organic farmer when the USDA just asked :
We are seeking testimony from various sources to arrive at 
conclusions and recommendations that will ensure the continued 
viability of small farms. The Commission requests that testimony and 
comments include ideas and recommendations based on the following 
questions. Concerns or problems of individual farms that relate to 
specific USDA programs should be addressed only in the context of a 
recommendation for the Commission to consider.    The questions are:
    1. How are current USDA programs helping or hurting the viability 
of small farms?    2. What are the needs of small farms in terms of
financing, 
research, extension, marketing and risk management and other areas? 
What recommendations would you make about these needs that could be 
part of a long-range strategy to ensure the continued viability of small
farms?
    3. Are there innovative non-governmental or state efforts to assist 
beginning and smaller independent farms that might be replicated or 
supplemented at the Federal level?
    4. What changes in USDA policy or practices are needed to make USDA 
programs in the areas of credit, research, extension, marketing, risk 
management and other areas more effective in enabling small farms to 
survive and thrive?
    5. What new programs could provide effective and affordable support 
for small farmers as commodity programs are phased out?


I say you can start by not charging the poor organic farmer just because he
want to sell his organic products as organic.

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