Organic Farming Conference in the USA

The 24th annual MOSES (Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service) organic farming conference will take place in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from 21 to 23 February 2013. This conference is the largest gathering of organic producers and agriculture professionals in the country, according to MOSES. It will feature more than 70 informative workshops; 10 day-long pre-conference Organic University courses; more than 170 trade show exhibitors; nationally known keynote speakers; and locally sourced organic food.
 

Keynote speakers are filmmakers Jeremy Seifert and Joshua Kunau who will discuss their new film and what they learned from talking to farmers, seed sellers and scientific experts about the issues with GMOs. Carmen Fernholz will share his vision of the roles producers and consumers should play in an ideal organic food production system. The conference includes a special track for new and young farmers, the New Organic Stewards program, which aims to educate, inspire and empower new farmers to succeed as organic producers. The conference also includes the Organic Research Forum, which brings the growing body of research on organic farming practices directly to farmers at the conference. More information is available here.