Released May 28, 2008

WOOSTER, Ohio — Ohio State University’s new Transition Guide to Certified Organic Crop Management (74 pp., $15) can now be bought online through Ohio State University Extension’s new, secure eStore, http://estore.osu-extension.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2120.

Published by the Organic Food and Farming Education and Research (OFFER) Program, part of the university’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), the book explains the rules and realities of switching to organic production. Grains, fruits and vegetables are the focus.

“It’s the only manual of its kind in Ohio,” said OFFER Coordinator Deb Stinner, “and there are very few like it anywhere else in the United States. It helps make the federal guidelines for organic crop production understandable and is filled with both practical and scientific information about things farmers can do to meet these guidelines.”

Read more about it and see the cover, introduction and an excerpt at http://www.ag.ohio-state .edu/~news/story.php?id=4606.

Orders of 50 or more copies get a 10-percent discount. OFFER, established in 1998 on OARDC’s Wooster campus, provides educational and scientific support for organic agriculture to the people of Ohio.

OARDC and OSU Extension are the research and outreach arms, respectively, of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

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Contact: Kurt Knebusch, (330) 263-3776, knebusch.1@osu.edu