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Practical Resources
- Comparative Analysis of Organic and Non-Organic Farming Systems: A Critical Assessment of Farm Profitability [PDF - 455 kB]
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2009
- Guidelines for Estimating Organic Crop Production Costs 2016 [PDF - 916 kB]
- Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. 2016
- The Magnitude and Impacts of the Biotech and Organic Seed Price Premium [PDF - 841 kB]
- The Organic Center. 2009
- Organic Farmers: Steps to Success [PDF - 368 kB]
- Minnesota Department of Agriculture
- Organic Farming for Health and Prosperity
- Organic Farming Research Foundation. 2012
- Organic foods industry creates more than a half million jobs
- Organic Trade Association. 2012
- Organic Trade Association. 2012
- Organic Works: Providing more jobs through organic farming and local food supply [PDF - 1.4 MB]
- Soil Association. 2006
- The Profit Potential of Certified Organic Field Crop Production
- USDA. 2015
- Rethinking Economic Development: Using Standard Tools to Promote a Local Food Economy Recorded Webinar
- Canadian Farm Business Management Council. 2010
Scientific Results
- An assessment of the economic performance of organic dairy sheep farming in Greece
- Livestock Science (2011) 141: 136-142
- Comparative cost analyses of conventional, integrated crop management, and organic methods
- HortTechnology (2000) 10: 785-793
- Ecological and economic evaluation of Dutch egg production systems
- Livestock Science (2011) 139: 109-121
- Economic analysis of experimental organic agricultural systems on a highly eroded soil of the Georgia Piedmont, USA
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2010) 25: 296-308
- Economic and social impacts of organic production systems
- Canadian Journal of Plant Science (2007) 87: 1037-1044
- Economic evaluation of longevity in organic dairy cows
- Organic Agriculture (2012) 2: 127-143
- Economic Performance of Long-Term Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems in Minnesota
- Agronomy Journal (2011) 103: 1372-1382
- The economic value of organic dairy farms in Vermont and Minnesota
- Journal of Dairy Science (2013) 96: 6117-6126
- Effects of input management and crop diversity on economic returns and riskiness of cropping systems in the semi-arid Canadian Prairie
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2011) 26: 208-223
- Effects of stored feed cropping systems and farm size on the profitability of Maine organic dairy farm simulations
- Journal of Dairy Science (2011) 94: 5710-5723
- The Fairtrade movement: Six lessons for the organics sector
- Organic Eprints. 2011
- Financial competitiveness of organic agriculture on a global scale
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2015) 112: 7611-7616
- Growth and Development in the U.S. Retail Organic Food Sector
- Sustainability (2009) 1: 579-591
- Household-Level Welfare Effects of Organic Milk Introduction
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2013) 95: 1009-1028
- How economic is organic? Results of a long-term trial at Burgrain/Lucerne, Switzerland
- Organic Eprints. 2005
- Impact of Spring Wheat Planting Density, Row Spacing, and Mechanical Weed Control on Yield, Grain Protein, and Economic Return in Maine
- Weed Science (2012) 60: 244-253
- The Long-Term Agroecological Research (LTAR) Experiment Supports Organic Yields, Soil Quality, and Economic Performance in Iowa
- Plant Management Network. 2013
- Maximizing profit on New England organic dairy farms: An economic comparison of 4 total mixed rations for organic Holsteins and Jerseys
- Journal of Dairy Science (2011) 94: 3184-3201
- Modelling farm-level economic potential for conversion to organic farming
- Agricultural Systems (2007) 94: 671-682
- Organic no-tillage system effects on soybean, corn and irrigated tomato production and economic performance in Iowa, USA
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2012) 27: 49-59
- Production Costs of Organic Vegetable Farms: Two Case Studies from Pennsylvania
- HortTechnology (2009) 19: 193-199
- Profitability of Cropping Systems Featuring Tillage and Compost
- Agronomy Journal (2010) 102: 450-456
- Profitability of organic and conventional soybean production under ‘green payments’ in carbon offset programs
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2012) 27: 266-277
- The profitability of organic soybean production
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2009) 24:276-284
- Risk and economic sustainability of crop farming systems
- Livestock Systems (2007) 94: 541-552
- Risk and risk management in organic agriculture: Views of organic farmers
- Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2004) 19: 218-227
- Small can be beautiful for organic market gardens: an exploration of the economic viability of French microfarms using MERLIN
- Agricultural Systems (2017) 158: 39-49
- Spatial Determinants of Organic Farming and Local Opportunities for Sales Outlets: The Cases of Alfalfa and Sugarbeet in the Ile-de-France Region
- Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (2014) 38: 460-484
- Veggie Compass: A Spreadsheet-based Tool to Calculate Cost of Production for Diversified Organic Vegetable Farmers
- HortTechnology (2014) 24: 394-402
- A whole-farm profitability analysis of organic and conventional cropping systems
- Agricultural Systems (2013) 122: 1-10
- Agricultural Systems (2013) 122: 1-10