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Organic Agriculture: Exploring Barriers & Solutions (2025)

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Think Regeneration, in partnership with the Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) and the USDA's Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP), today released its 2025 producer insights report: “Organic Agriculture: Exploring Barriers and Solutions.” The research offers a first-of-its-kind look beyond conventional narratives around cost and paperwork to explore the deeper motivations, needs, and challenges facing producers across the Great Plains and nationwide.

Drawing from interviews and surveys with more than 170 farmers, ranchers, and agriculture professionals, the report identifies a complex yet hopeful landscape where markets, values, and outcomes all intersect to shape organic and regenerative agriculture today

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American Society of Agronomy

North American Project to Evaluate Soil Health Measurements. March 2020.

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Cornell University

Soil Security. Cropping system and soil texture shape soil health outcomes and

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Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant Microbiome Technology for Sustainable Agriculture. Hanif Muhammad Sajid , Tayyab Muhammad , Baillo Elamin Hafiz , Islam M. Mominul , Islam Waqar , Li Xiaofang. 2024

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Global Ecology & Conservation

Soil Health Gap. A concept to establish a benchmark for soil health management. Bijesh Maharjan, Saurav Das Bharat Sharma Acharya. April 2020.

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Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage. April 2023.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Growing Opportunity. A Guide to USDA Sustainable Farming Programs. Spring 2022

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Rodale Institute

40 Years of Farming Systems Trials. Comparing conventional to organic systems, the research addresses the barriers to the adoption of organic farming by farmers across the country.

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Rutgers University

Endophyte Symbiosis: Evolutionary Development, and Impacts of Plant Agriculture. Xiaoqian Chang , Blair Young , Nicole Vaccar, Raquele Strickland, Walter Goldstein, Lena Struwe, and James F White. 2023

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Soil Health Institute

An Evaluation of Carbon Indicators of Soil Health in Long-Term Agriculture Experiments. August 2021

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A global meta-analysis of cover crop response on soil carbon storage within a corn production system. March 2023.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture

Cover Crop Trends, Programs, and Practices in the United States. February 2021

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