AMS Releases Guidance on Materials Allowed in Organic Crop Production

The Agricultural Marketing Service released guidance for the National Organic Program on classification of materials used in organic crop production. New final guidance NOP 5033 “details the procedures and decision trees for classifying materials used for organic crop production, livestock production, and handling,” AMS said (here). A second final guidance document, NOP 5034, “clarifies certain materials for use in organic crop production.” Both guidances are available in the NOP program manual (here).