New & Updated Publications from ATTRA

Free publications on sustainable agriculture from the National Sustainable-Agriculture Information Service.

July 24, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:   Paul Williams
      National Center for Appropriate    
                Technology
      P.O. Box 3657
      Fayetteville, AR 72702
      (479) 442-9824 / (800) 346-9140
      paulw@ncat.org

New & Updated Publications from ATTRA

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA), the national sustainable agriculture information service of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), is pleased to announce the following new and updated additions to its publications list.

NEW

Managed Grazing in Riparian Areas
This publication is designed to help farmers and ranchers identify and use locally appropriate grazing practices to protect riparian resources. Methods for protecting these environmentally fragile areas include keeping livestock from streambanks, properly resting pastures to restore degraded land, and determining the proper duration and season for grazing pastures. It examines adjusting general recommendations to fit your particular management objectives and environmental conditions. 28 pages.

Protecting Riparian Areas: Farmland Management Strategies
Designed to help farmers, watershed managers, and environmentalists understand what healthy riparian areas look like, how they function, and why they are important to the environment and society, this publication also looks at the costs and benefits of riparian management. It includes tables to help evaluate protection strategies and discusses how watershed residents can work together to carry out those strategies. 36 pages.

Organic Compliance Checksheet
This Checksheet assists in assessing the compliance of your farm or ranch operation with National Organic Program Standards. The Checksheet is divided into eight sections. Sections 2 through 7 correspond to the six categories of information required in the Organic Production and Handling System Plan, including Practices and Procedures, Inputs, Monitoring, Record Keeping, and Commingling and Contamination. 20 pages.

Organic Cotton Production
This publication examines the allowed materials and required practices for raising organic cotton. Among the considerations addressed are soil fertility, weed and pest management, and marketing. Organic manures and soil amendments and the most common diseases and pests are discussed, as are marketing and the economics of organic cotton production. 24 pages.

Organic Rice Production
This publication focuses on the special considerations particular to organic, rather than conventional, rice production. It addresses topics such as weed suppression, soil fertility, insect and disease control, profitability, and marketing. 6 pages.

Small-Scale Poultry Processing
This publication covers small-scale processing, both on-farm and in small plants. A growing number of small producers are raising poultry outdoors on pasture, processing the birds on-farm or in regional processing facilities, and selling the meat directly to customers at the farm or at a farmers' market. Access to processing is a critical issue for small producers. This publication covers each step of processing poultry and offers examples of mobile processing units. 40 pages.

UPDATED

Deer Control Options

Kenaf Production

Organic Culture of Bramble Fruits

Organic Small Grain Production

Range Poultry Housing

Sustainable Dry Bean Production

Sustainable Turf Care

These and more than 250 other ATTRA publications are available free to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, market gardeners, and others engaged in commercial agriculture, by calling 1-800-346-9140. The publications may also be downloaded from the ATTRA Web site, http://www.attra.ncat.org.

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