Welcome to MOFGA Certification Services
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) has been certifying organic farmers since 1972 and is one of the country’s oldest certification programs. MOFGA Certification Services LLC was formed by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association in 2002 in order to provide USDA-accredited organic certification services to Maine farmers and food processors. Our service area currently consists of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. If your operation is located outside of these New England states, please refer to the USDA NOP website or the Organic Integrity database to locate a certifier that services your area. If you are in Connecticut or Rhode Island, please contact our office.
MOFGA Certification Services (MCS) certifies crops, wild crops, sea vegetables, livestock, livestock products, and processed products to the USDA National Organic Program standard.
LATEST NEWS
The Organic Sprout is Back – Spring 2016 Issue
After a 3 year hiatus, The Organic Sprout, MOFGA’s Newsletter for Organic Producers, is back with the Spring 2016 issue. If you haven’t yet received your copy in the mail, you can read and download the PDF here.
Good information available from MOFGA’s Ag Services
Pest reports….If you grow crops, you’ll want to check out Eric Sideman’s pest reports. Tomato & potato growers, we hope you are dodging late blight this season. Price reports…Heather Omand’s summer price report can be found here. If you value this information, consider contributing to the dataset.
22 April 14 Field Notes-Maple Syrup
Jerome Rigot and I just returned from the last of the maple syrup inspections in the north woods of Somerset County, Maine. In order to access these sugar camps, located in the unorganized territory of Seboomook Lake, we stay in St. Georges, Quebec, and must cross in and out of Maine each day using…