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Welcome to "ON Organic"

Welcome to the February 2009 issue of ON Organic. I hope many of you had a chance to attend the Guelph organic conference which was a big success once again. This month is the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Conference which has an organic session and the EcoFarm Day in Cornwall. Both promise to be worthwhile conferences. In addition there are many other meetings and courses going on and once again I have tried to highlight many of them in this issue. Of particular note look at the courses for the organic sector on the new regulations and the revised standards. The revised regulations and standards will include changes that you should make note of but largely this will enable the organic system to continue as seamlessly as possible. It will give added customer assurances of what is organic.

Thanks to Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO) and Organic Council of Ontario (OCO) for forwarding this on to their email lists, and I encourage you to share it with other colleagues who may find it useful. As always I welcome your comments by email or when we see each other at various meetings this winter.

Subscription to this newsletter is easy and no cost. For details go to the webpage:
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/subscribe/index.html#organic

The newsletter is also posted on the OMAFRA website at:
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/organic/news/news-organic.html

The French version of these newsletters is available at:
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/french/crops/organic/news/news-organic.html

The OMAFRA Organic pages are linked from
http://www.ontario.ca/organic and http://www.ontario.ca/biologique