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Last spring, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) created a special initiative as a part of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. This initiative, called the Organic Initiative, provides financial and technical assistance to agriculture producers who want to improve their organic operations or transition land to organic production. Now that sign-up for the program is over, OFRF is collecting feedback from farmers on the EQIP Organic Initiative. Whether or not you received a contract through the EQIP Organic Initiative, please help us make it better by providing your feedback on this short survey. OFRF will use the feedback on the 2009 Organic Initiative to provide recommendations to NRCS to make the 2010 Initiative work better for farmers. In order for to get data to NRCS in time to affect the 2010 Organic Initiative, this survey will only be available until November 10.