Check out the following to learn more!

• Relevant sites

  • Organic Certification Made Simple- USDA Agricultural Marketing Service's multi-part video series of farmers discussing their firsthand experiences with obtaining organic certification. 
  • Produce Safety Alliance's Curriculum- "Providing fundamental, science-based, on-farm food safety knowledge to fresh fruit and vegetable farmers, packers, workers, regulatory personnel, and others interested in the safety of fresh produce."
  • Organic Agronomy Training Service (OATS)- "A collaboratively-managed training program for agricultural advisors working with organic or transitioning farmers in the United States. Our aim is for every transitional and certified organic farmer to have robust access to technical service expertise to provide unbiased, science-based agronomic support for their farming operation."
  • Baur Food Systems Lab- "Research focusing on how communities navigate the dynamics of ecological sustainability, community development, economic production, and human health in agriculture and food systems."
  • University of Georgia Center for Food Safety- "Multidisciplinary research to improve the safety of food by prevention, detection, and control of contamination and transmission of food-borne pathogens, addressing the needs of public and private stakeholders locally and globally."
  • The Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS)- "Part of the Department of Veterinary Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, was established in 2004 to provide a coordinated, multidisciplinary, on-going research effort to develop models and modeling systems in the area of animal disease."

• Webinars and other media

  • Tools Organic Farmers Need to Meet Food Safety Requirements: Learnings from a National Needs Assessment 

• Publications

  • Baur, P. When farmers are pulled in too many directions: comparing institutional drivers of food safety and environmental sustainability in California agriculture. Agric Hum Values 37, 1175–1194 (2020).

  • Carlisle, L., Esquivel, K., Baur, P., Ichikawa, N. F., Olimpi, E. M., Ory, J., … Bowles, T. M. Organic farmers face persistent barriers to adopting diversification practices in California’s Central Coast. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 46(8), 1145–1172, (2022).

  • Adalja, A., Baur, P., Wiedmann, M., Olimpi, E., & Weller, D. Pre-harvest food safety and conservation challenges facing US produce growers: Results from a national survey. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 38, e51, (2023).

  • Kapoor HK, Appolon CB, Bardsley CA, Kharel K, Schneider KR, Sharma M, Mishra AK, Kumar GD, Pires AFA, Dunn LL, Mishra A. Temporal and Environmental Drivers for Survival of Escherichia coli in Florida Soils Amended with Heat-Treated Poultry Pellets and Composted Poultry Litter. J Food Prot, (2025).

  • Nie et al., (2026). Risk Factors Associated with Generic Escherichia coli Presence in Fresh Produce Grown in Manure-Amended Soil in Certified Organic Farms. Journal of Food Protection.

  • Nie et al., (2026). Microbial Food Safety Risk in Finished Soil Amendments: A Statewide Cross-Sectional Study of Organic Waste Processing Systems in California. Journal of Food Protection.

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