One-of-a-kind platform affords curated, science-based natural farming instruments and sources to assist farmers discover trusted, sensible options to on-farm challenges.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 7, 2025 — The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF) right now introduced the launch of the Natural Analysis Hub, a first-of-its-kind on-line platform created to serve the wants of natural and transitioning farmers throughout the US—providing trusted, science-based instruments to unravel actual on-farm challenges.
Accessible at organicresearchhub.org, the Natural Analysis Hub brings collectively an unprecedented assortment of curated sources, all searchable by manufacturing matter, crop class, area, key phrase, and extra. The platform contains factsheets, analysis summaries, webinars, guidebooks, movies, and different technical instruments gathered from the nation’s prime agricultural establishments and natural organizations. It additionally homes the entire library of practically 200 closing studies from OFRF-funded analysis tasks, making a long time of farmer-informed analysis simply accessible in a single place.
“We created the Natural Analysis Hub to satisfy farmers the place they’re,” stated Dr. Heather Estrada, OFRF’s analysis & training senior scientist and architect of the platform. “Producers don’t have time to dig by educational journals or outdated PDFs. They want credible, sensible sources they will use within the subject—and that’s precisely what this device gives.”
Along with superior filtering and key phrase search capabilities, customers can signal as much as obtain custom-made notifications when new content material is added to their area or space of curiosity. The Hub additionally features a nationwide Natural Extension Listing, serving to join farmers with trusted agricultural professionals and researchers of their communities.
“There’s a whole lot of noise on-line. The Hub cuts by that,” stated Jordan Settlage, an natural dairy farmer at Settlage & Settlage Farms in St. Mary’s, Ohio. “I used to be altering our compost administration and had some questions. In lower than a minute, the Hub helped me discover precisely what I wanted—from credible sources I belief. That’s a giant deal. I can use it to make actual selections for our farm.”
With no comparable device at the moment accessible, the Natural Analysis Hub addresses a long-standing hole in how natural analysis is accessed and utilized. Though natural now accounts for greater than 6% of whole U.S. meals gross sales and 15% of all produce gross sales, analysis funding for natural agriculture stays disproportionately low—receiving lower than 2% of USDA analysis {dollars} and fewer than 1% of the Agricultural Analysis Service’s price range. OFRF’s personal Nationwide Natural Analysis Agenda (NORA) continues to focus on the urgent want for regionally related, farmer-informed options. The Natural Analysis Hub is a direct response to that want.
“That is about entry,” stated Brise Tencer, OFRF’s govt director. “For too lengthy, natural farmers have needed to piece collectively data on their very own—typically with out institutional help or public funding. However what’s thrilling is that natural analysis doesn’t simply serve natural farmers—it’s helpful to any grower searching for wholesome soils, resilient techniques, and non-chemical options. The Hub displays our dedication to placing dependable, farmer-focused instruments immediately into their palms.”
The Hub options content material from main organizations, together with the SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Analysis and Training) program, dozens of land-grant universities, and nonprofit companions comparable to ATTRA (Acceptable Know-how Switch for Rural Areas) and The Natural Middle. It’s going to proceed to develop as new content material is added and extra researchers and extension brokers contribute their work.
The Natural Analysis Hub is stay now at organicresearchhub.org.
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Concerning the Natural Farming Analysis Basis
The Natural Farming Analysis Basis (OFRF), headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, with a distant staff primarily based throughout the U.S., works to foster the advance and widespread adoption of natural farming techniques. OFRF cultivates natural analysis, training, 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.org
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