Title: Roger Blobaum Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1954-2020

Creator:

• Blobaum, Roger John, 1929-2023

Call Number: Mss 1169; Audio 1723A; PH 6898

Quantity: 32.2 cubic feet (30 records center cartons, 4 archives boxes, 2 half-archives boxes, and 2 oversize folders), 0.3 cubic feet of photographs, negatives, and contact sheets (1 half-archives box and 1 oversize folder), 72 audio recordings (64 tape recordings and 8 CDs), and 2.78 gigabytes

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers, 1954-2020, of Roger Blobaum, a consultant on agricultural policy specializing in organic research and education with extensive involvement in over forty regional, national, and international sustainable agriculture organizations including the World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA), Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES), International Organic Accreditation Services (IOAS), and the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF). As co-chair of the Organic Food Act Working Group, Blobaum actively participated in shaping the 1990 Organic Foods Production Act and seeing it through Congress. Related topics documented in the papers include solar and other renewable energy applications on farms, resource conservation, farmland preservation, corporate farming, the development of national and international organic standards, organic integrity, funding for organic research, and the role of faith-based organizations in promoting sustainable rural development. Also included are records of the Organic Farmers Associations Council (OFAC).

Note:

Forms part of the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01169

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Roger John Blobaum was born in 1929 in Hastings, Nebraska, and grew up on a crop and livestock farm in southern Iowa.

Blobaum served in the United States Army on two separate occasions. In 1948-1949, he served in the Public Information Office at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he edited The Guidon, the weekly post newspaper. He also graduated from the Armed Forces Information School at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, before his release from active duty. In 1950 he was recalled to active duty in Asia, where he was the non-commissioned officer in charge of Information and Education at a Japan-based 1500-bed hospital that received and treated airlifted Korean War casualties. He received the Japan Occupation and Korean Service ribbons in November 1951, and was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant.

In 1955, he received a B.S. in agricultural journalism from Iowa State University. He worked for seven years for the Associated Press, first as a statehouse reporter and editor in Madison, Wisconsin, and then as a state trunk editor in Chicago, Illinois. He earned an M.S. in communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1963.

Blobaum's involvement with Hubert Humphrey began when he ran the senator's press room at the National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City in 1964. When Humphrey was nominated at the convention, Blobaum became assistant press secretary and was on Humphrey's traveling staff during his successful campaign for vice president. He traveled with Vice President Humphrey through his 1966 national campaign to help elect Democratic governors and members of Congress. When Humphrey announced his campaign for president in 1968, Blobaum was named executive director of Rural Americans for Humphrey and, following the 1968 national convention, was the undercover representative following and reporting to the Humphrey campaign on the speeches and other presentations of Spiro Agnew, the Republican vice-presidential candidate.

Blobaum also worked as an agriculture staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate during the 1960s, including time as press secretary to Senator Gaylord Nelson (1964-1966). He traced his interest in organic farming to a visit he made in 1971 to Clarence van Sant's farm in Grinnell, Iowa, where he was deeply impressed by the health of the soil, farm animals, and row crops. After discovering from Van Sant that the Rodale Press was a primary source of organic farming information, Blobaum approached the press and developed a relationship as an editorial consultant. This work included visiting outstanding organic farms, interviewing and photographing the farmers, and writing stories about them for publication in Organic Farming and Gardening magazine over a five-year period ending in 1978. He also wrote similar stories for other publications.

As director of communications and policy development for the Institute for Alternative Agriculture (later known as the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture and then the Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural & Environmental Policy), he edited its monthly newsletter and served as managing editor for the American Journal of Alternative Agriculture. Blobaum accompanied the first delegation of U.S. farmers to China in 1975 while the Cultural Revolution was still underway and a year later helped organize a second delegation that included two agricultural editors, two rural sociologists, a wheat breeder, and a soil scientist. After speaking at an international symposium in Beijing in 1993, he returned to China nine times to lecture at China Agricultural University, to provide training and other organic development services to the Ministry of Agriculture's China Green Food Development Center, and to make presentations at conferences related to global organic marketing and international organic accreditation.

On the national level, as interest in alternative agriculture increased in the early 1970s, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the agricultural establishment were generally hostile to the organic approach. This attitude prevailed until 1979, when Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland authorized a study of organic farming, which resulted in a 1980 report that recommended federal government research, education, and other support for organic agriculture. Copies of the report were widely distributed, and an organic farming coordinator was hired. A change of administration the following year resulted in the destruction of remaining copies of the report, the termination of the organic farming coordinator position, and a resumption of USDA hostility to organic farming that persisted through efforts to pass the Organic Foods Production Act in 1990.

From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, Blobaum served on several national committees, including the Cost of Production Advisory Committee and the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Advisory Committee (both USDA committees), Food Industry Advisory Committee (Department of Energy), the Solar Energy Research Institute's National Advisory Committee, the Appropriate Technology Advisory Committee (National Science Foundation), and panels on food and agriculture research, assessment of local development technology, and dispersed electric generating technologies (Office of Technology Assessment).

From 1977 to 1983, he acted as President of Roger Blobaum & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in alternative agriculture, renewable energy, and appropriate technology. Clients included the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Energy, Community Services Administration, National Science Foundation, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the National Center for Appropriate Technology.

He also served as Executive Director of the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute and the Family Farm Defense Fund; as Director of Americans for Safe Food (a project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest), for which he organized four national agriculture policy conferences; and co-chaired the Organic Food Act Working Group, a coalition that worked for passage of the Organic Foods Production Act in 1990. In 1991, he was a member of the group that established the World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA) in Japan. Blobaum served in various capacities for WSAA, including chairing the Policy Directorate, serving on the Executive Committee, directing the activities of the Washington, D.C. office, and serving as WSAA representative to the Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, 1992) and the international conference on nutrition.

While working for the WSAA in the 1990s, Blobaum also worked on specific projects to advance sustainable agriculture work in other countries. Blobaum accepted a Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (VOCA) assignment at the Regional Environmental Center (REC) in Budapest, Hungary to prepare a sustainable agriculture small grants program for thirteen countries in Central and Eastern Europe. He returned as a consultant the following year to assist the REC staff in assessing problems experienced in making the first round of grants. Two years later he returned as a consultant to the Field Crops Institute in Bălţi, Moldova, and keynoted a national sustainable agriculture conference sponsored by the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture.

In 1992, he established Blobaum & Associates, a consulting firm offering management services for organic and sustainable agriculture organizations. Over the years, clients included the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, Organic Foods Production Association of North America/Organic Trade Association, the World Sustainable Agriculture Association, China Green Food Development Center, National Sustainable Agriculture Coordinating Council, Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service, and The Ceres Trust. He also served as director of public relations for the National Farmers Union (NFU) and the National Farmers Organization (NFO).

From 1995 to 1998, he served as Project Coordinator for the Soul of Agriculture, a project of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE), which focused on creation of a guiding document that would recognize agricultural impact on the environment. During this period he also served as a delegate to the Food Labeling Committee of Codex Alimentarius, a United Nations-sponsored food standards agency, and was part of the Codex group that developed international organic guidelines.

In 1997, he co-founded Organic Watch, a coalition of groups that monitored public comments on the first proposed national organic rule, and served on its Executive Committee. He was a frequent speaker at conferences and other events and testified before Congressional subcommittees on eleven occasions over a twenty-year period regarding renewable energy, rural development, agricultural land, and national organic standards.

Blobaum served on numerous boards, including the Rural Advancement Fund (1980-1983), Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (1994-1996), Organic Farming Research Foundation (1994-2000), International Organic Accreditation Services (1994-2006), and Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (2005-2014). He wrote numerous articles and papers, including the “Inside Organics” columns he wrote for the Organic Broadcaster, a MOSES publication, from 2005 to 2010. He also proposed and helped develop for MOSES its Organic University, a farmer-to-farmer mentoring program, and its Organic Farmer of the Year initiative.

In 2013 he received an Honorary Recognition Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for “significant contributions and selfless service to organic farming.”

For more information on Roger Blobaum's activities, projects, photographs, and the text of many key documents in the organic movement, see http://rogerblobaum.com.

Chronology

1929	Born in Hastings, Nebraska
1955	B.S., agricultural journalism, Iowa State University
1956-1960	Statehouse reporter, Associated Press, Madison, Wisconsin
1960-1963	State-Trunk editor, Associated Press, Chicago, Illinois
1963	M.S., communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1963-1964	Congressional fellow, American Political Science Association. One of eight journalists selected in a national competition for a one-year study of Congress
1964	Assistant press secretary to Senator Hubert Humphrey in Presidential campaign tour
1966	Traveling assistant to Vice President Hubert Humphrey on national campaign for Democratic candidates
1964-1966	Press Secretary and Legislative Assistant to Senator Gaylord Nelson, specializing in agricultural and environmental policy
1966-1968	Director of Public Relations, National Farmers Union, Denver, Colorado and Washington, D.C.
1968	Served on staff of Humphrey for President campaign as Executive Director of Rural Americans for Humphrey
1969-1970	Senior Legislative Assistant, Democratic Study Group, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Task Force Staff Director for Food and Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment, Consumer Affairs, and Economic and Tax Policy (10-15 members of Congress each)
1970	Democratic Party nominee for Congress in Iowa's 4th district
1970-1977	Private agricultural consultant
1971-1978	Southern Iowa Council of Governments (SICOG), Board of Directors: Vice Chairman (1973-1974); Chairman (1974-1975); Executive Committee (1973-1978)
1972-1976	Editorial consultant to Rodale Press; included writing organic farmer profiles for Rodale publications
1972-1976	Midwest Organizer, founding Board member, National Coalition for Land Reform
1974-1976	Member, Cost of Production Advisory Committee, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
1975-1976	Accompanied U.S. agricultural delegations to the People's Republic of China
1977-1983	President, Roger Blobaum & Associates (1977-1983), a consulting firm for design and management of alternative agriculture, renewable energy, and appropriate technology projects. Clients included the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy, Community Services Administration, National Science Foundation, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the National Center for Appropriate Technology
1977-1981	Member, Small Farm Advisory Committee, National Rural Center
1978-1979	Member, Food Industry Advisory Committee, Department of Energy
1975-1982	Rural America, Board of Directors: Vice Chairman (1975-1976); National Chairman (1976-1978); Executive Committee (1975-1982)
1976-1979	Principal Investigator, Small Farm Energy Project (Center for Rural Affairs), national research and demonstration project in Nebraska focusing on energy conservation and alternative energy on fifty small farms
1978-1980	Advisory Panel member, Assessment of Technology for Local Development, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
1978-1980	Appropriate Technology Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation
1979-1981	National Advisory Board, Solar Energy Research Institute (funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)
1979-1982	National Solar Lobby, Board of Directors: National Secretary (1980-1981); National Treasurer (1981-1982)
1980-1981	Advisory Panel member, Assessment of Food and Agriculture Research and Assessment of Dispersed Electric Generating Technologies, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
1980-1983	Rural Advancement Fund, Board of Directors: Chairman of Executive Committee (1982-1983)
1981-1983	American Solar Energy Society, Agriculture Division, Board of Directors
1984	Democratic Party candidate for Congress in Iowa's 5th district
1984-1985	Director of Public Relations, National Farmers Organization
1985-1986	Director of Communications and Policy Development, Managing Editor: American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, Institute for Alternative Agriculture (IAA, later known as the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture and then the Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural & Environmental Policy)
1986-1988	Founder and Executive Director, Family Farm Defense Fund, a public interest law firm
1989-1991	Director, Americans for Safe Food (a project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest); organized four national organic and sustainable agriculture policy conferences
1990	Co-chair, Organic Food Act Working Group, coalition of thirty organizations that helped shape and support passage of the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA)
1991-1993	Chair, Organic Food Act Implementation Working Group, mobilized public support for annual Congressional appropriations for the National Organic Program
1991-1996	Member of founding group for World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA); chair of Policy Directorate; member of Executive Committee; director of Washington, D.C. office; Associate Director (1992-1996); WSAA accredited representative to United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro (1992) and the International Conference on Nutrition (1992), sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization
1991-1996	Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, Advisory Committee member (1991); Executive Director (part-time, 1992-1994); Board member (1994-1996)
1992-present	President, Blobaum & Associates, a consulting firm to organic and sustainable agriculture organizations (including the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, Organic Foods Production Association of North America/Organic Trade Association, WSAA, China Green Food Development Center, National Sustainable Agriculture Coordinating Council, Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service, and The Ceres Trust)
1992-2007	Member of founding group of National Dialogue on Sustainable Agriculture, which became the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture and later merged with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)
1992-1993	First Washington, D.C. representative of Organic Trade Association (formerly Organic Food Production Association of North America); member of Accreditation Committee
1993-1994	Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (VOCA) assignment at Regional Environmental Center (REC), Budapest. Developed an organic and sustainable agriculture grants program for twelve countries in central and eastern Europe. Returned twice to the REC as a consultant for follow-up
1994-2000	Board member, Organic Farming Research Foundation
1995	Appointed to National Sustainable Agriculture Advisory Council by Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to advise the Department on research and education initiatives
1994-2009	Member of Acccreditation Programme Board (1994-1998) of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM), then a founder and board member of International Organic Accreditation Services (IOAS), which replaced it
1994-1996	Member, World Wildlife Fund's Great Lakes Region Pesticide Reduction Advisory Committee
1996-2002	Co-coordinator, Organic Food Act Working Group, encouraged public participation in reviewing and commenting on proposed USDA organic rules
1997 December-1999	Co-founder and Steering Committee member, Organic Watch, coalition of groups that monitored public comments to USDA on proposed Organic Rule, and provided assistance to those involved in the rulemaking process
1995-1998	Project Coordinator, Soul of Agriculture Project, Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE)
1996-1999	Delegate, Food Labeling Committee of Codex Alimentarius, United Nations-sponsored food standards agency (5 years); served on working group that prepared Codex international organic guidelines
1994-2006	International Organic Accreditation Services (IOAS): Board and Executive Committee member (1994-2006); Accreditation Committee member (1995-2000)
2000-2014	Midwest Organic and Sustainable Service (MOSES): Consultant (2000-2004); board member (2005-2014). Developed Organic University, short courses that draw 500+ participants annually; a farmer peer mentoring program; and the Organic Farmer of the Year program
2007	Member of founding group, National Organic Coalition (NOC). Served on national team that organized and led series of meetings that developed the National Organic Action Plan, used by the USDA in planning organic farming initiatives. Since 2013, serves as an elected NOC adviser
2008-2013	Consultant to the Ceres Trust. Proposed and developed in 2008, and coordinated on behalf of the Ceres Trust through 2013, two competitive programs that awarded grants to support organic research in the 12-state North Central Region.
2013 October	Honorary Recognition Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: “In Recognition of Highly Meritorious Service to Agriculture and Education”
2023 October 29	Roger John Blobaum died in Washington, DC

Due to the broad extent of Roger Blobaum's involvement in the organic and sustainable agriculture movement and his contacts with other key figures that go back to the current movement's earliest days, the Blobaum papers must be considered the seminal collection in the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection. His wide-ranging professional activities involve legislative staff work on agricultural and environmental issues in both houses of Congress, and research and policy work on appropriate technology, urban waste disposal issues, solar and other energy alternatives, environmental regulation, farmland preservation, and organic and sustainable agriculture. Blobaum acted as an effective administrator, policy consultant, organizer of large-scale events, program developer, grant proposal strategist, and a collegial, well-respected board and committee member for numerous organizations. As field representative for the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection, he served as a consultant to the Wisconsin Historical Society on soliciting donations and helped to shape its collecting focus. The collection consists solely of professional papers; there is scant documentation of Blobaum's personal life, apart from occasional brief references in the correspondence files and articles and clippings in the Congressional campaigns files.

The Blobaum papers were donated to the Archives in two major accessions. The first accession (M2014-096) represents materials donated from 2013 to 2015. The second accession (M2023-082) includes materials donated to the Archives from 2015 to 2017.

The papers are arranged in four series: CORRESPONDENCE, WORKING FILES, SUBJECT FILES, and VISUAL MATERIALS.

The CORRESPONDENCE series from Blobaum's office from the early 1970s to 1980 includes incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence, filed alphabetically by last name or organization, concerning speaking engagements at conferences regarding alternative energy, rural development, and trips with agricultural delegations to China; research and writing; and work for various committees. A smaller quantity of general correspondence dating from 1992-1999 and 2011-2013 is included. Correspondence from the 1970s to the present can also be found within the working files series for individual organizations or projects.

The WORKING FILES series includes files from the numerous organizations with which Blobaum was involved over the course of forty-plus years involvement in organic and sustainable agriculture, and are particularly strong for the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE), Family Farm Defense Fund (FFDF), International Organic Accreditation Services (IOAS), Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES), National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture (NCSA), Organic Farmers Associations Council (OFAC), Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF), and the World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA).

There are extensive files for Blobaum's work (1995-1998) as project coordinator for the Soul of Agriculture, a project of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE), an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Included are files on the development of an agricultural production ethic document, a national conference in Minneapolis (November 1997) to raise public awareness about agriculture's impact on the environment and to mobilize public support for the document (the revised version was entitled, “Creating a New Vision of Farming,” and the executive summary, “Charter for a Shared Farming Ethic”), and related follow-up events. Also documented is the involvement of several faith-based organizations, including the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and the Churches' Center for Land and People, related to agricultural issues.

The Center for Rural Affairs (CRA) files include correspondence with Center Co-Director Don Ralston and other staff, annual reports and other materials, and good coverage of files relating to the Small Farms Energy Project (SFEP, 1976-1979), for which Blobaum served as Principal Investigator, and a smaller quantity of files for the Small Farms Advocacy Project (SFAP, 1978-1979), another Center project which advocated for the interests of small farms in government programs.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) files contain documents related to two projects Blobaum worked on as project director of Americans for Safe Food: 1) draft reports and working papers for the Keystone Center National Policy Dialogue on Food Safety and Pesticides, and 2) a project mobilizing support for organic and sustainable agriculture programs in individual states.

The Democratic Party files include Blobaum's work with Senator Gaylord Nelson, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and Blobaum's own Congressional campaigns in 1970 and 1984.

Papers relating to the International Organic Accreditation Services (IOAS) include organizational documents, committee and board meeting materials, correspondence, and policy manuals that document issues related to accreditation of organic certifiers. Included are materials concerning its relationship with the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM).

The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) files include materials on the organization's origins as Wisconsin Chapter #1 of the Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA), which beginning in 1990 had organized the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference (UMOFC) and provided education services to farmers. In 1999, Wisconsin Chapter #1 Educational Fund became an independent 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization and was renamed Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES). The organization continued to sponsor the Organic Farming Conference, the nation's largest organic farming event with more than seventy workshops and an exhibitors hall every year. In 2001, MOSES expanded its educational mission with the formation of Organic University, a series of full-day short courses on specific topics, held the day before the conference. MOSES also publishes an annual resource directory, holds farm field days, and responds to individual questions on organics. Blobaum & Associates provided consulting services at all stages of the organization's formation, including program development and grant proposal writing, as well as progress and final reports. In 2005, Blobaum became a board member and served until March 2014. Records in this series include correspondence, board meeting and UMOFC materials, grant files, and materials related to the Organic University, a program Blobaum helped develop to foster opportunities for farmer-led training for organic production methods. Given Blobaum's long involvement with MOSES, these records are particularly strong. In 2022, MOSES changed its name to Marbleseed.

The Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (MSAWG) files include work on appropriations, meeting materials, and Washington, D.C. reports from the original sustainable agriculture working group (four other regional groups would follow). There may be some duplication in the Blobaum papers (particularly meeting materials) with what is found in the Loni Kemp papers (Mss 1084), another manuscript collection in the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection. Meeting materials in the Kemp papers are extensively annotated.

The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture (NCSA) papers include correspondence, board and committee meeting materials, newsletters, and other materials relating to the debate over the rule implementing the 1990 Organic Foods Production Act, objections of the organic community to provisions of the first proposed and revised versions of the rule, and issues surrounding its implementation, as well as Campaign involvement in the 1995, 2002, and 2007 farm bills.

Also included in this series are the organizational records of the Organic Farmers Associations Council (OFAC), an organization formed in December 1989 and intended to provide a unified voice for small organic farmers and certifiers across the country in light of pending national organic standard legislation. The organization subsequently influenced the development of national organic standards and policies. OFAC dissolved in the mid-1990s. Records include board meeting minutes and materials; annual meeting and steering committee files; correspondence; member mailings; drafts and working files on organic standards for processing, livestock, and materials evaluation; and documents relating to a definition of “organic” and interstate certification (reciprocity between states with varying organic standards). Included are files on agricultural consultant Lynn Coody's conceptual model for materials evaluation which was incorporated into the Oregon organic production standards and the Organic Foods Production Act; and extensive meeting texts for an organizing conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas (1990) and a board meeting in Mountain View, Arkansas (1991). Also of note are OFAC recommendations for criteria for selection of National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) members and a file of nominees (with supporting materials) to the NOSB.

The Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) papers document the process that began with 1990 legislation to establish national organic standards to implementation of a final organic rule in 2002. A considerable portion of these files consists of correspondence, meeting materials, and other documents relating to the USDA's first proposed rule, issued in December 1997, and the revised proposed rule (March 13, 2000) that was issued in response to over 275,000 public comments opposing the original version of the rule. Files relating to the OFPA process are also included under other organizations in the Working Files series.

The Organic Watch files primarily consist of correspondence, calls for public comment, alerts, press releases, and statements relating to the first proposed organic rule (issued in 1997) and the rulemaking process. Also included are files from the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Labeling from 1999 to 2002 (see also Codex files for 1991-1998 under WSAA).

The World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA) files document Blobaum's roles with the organization as a founding member, chair of its Policy Directorate, member of the Executive Committee, director of the Washington, D.C. office, and Associate Director. He was also WSAA accredited representative to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, also known as the Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and the subsequent Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), which the UN General Assembly established to oversee implementation of Agenda 21, a plan for international sustainable development. Included are documents relating to sessions of the Commission in 1993-1995, and the Special Session of the General Assembly held in 1997 (Earth Summit 2). Papers relating to the International Conference on Nutrition, sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, are also included. Blobaum's service as the WSAA representative to the Committee on Food Labeling for the international food standards agency, Codex Alimentarius, is documented by files from 1991 to 1998. Although some of Blobaum's work on international projects was performed as an independent contractor or as a volunteer for Volunteers for Overseas Cooperative Assistance (VOCA), Blobaum was also working for the WSAA during this period, and files related to this work are under Project Files for that organization. Blobaum's own summary of these files is included in Box 12, Folder 30. The World Bank files, 1992-1996, include various documents relating to agricultural development: an Agricultural Action Plan, integrated pest management (IPM) policy, and an Agricultural Sector Review paper.

Blobaum gave many speeches and presentations over the course of his forty-year career, and the papers include the texts of many speeches given as keynote addresses at national organic and sustainable agriculture conferences in Taiwan, Australia, and Hungary and major presentations at national conferences in China, Japan, Mexico, and Moldova. Audio recordings of some presentations are included in this series and the Subject Files series, as well as various conference recordings.

The SUBJECT FILES series contains files on the National Organic Program (NOP), the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the Arthur Harvey case, conferences and workshop participation and presentations, the green labels movement, livestock standards, mailing lists, and other files relating to organizations for which there was a relatively small amount of material.

The VISUAL MATERIALS series includes color and black and white prints, negatives, and contact sheets for various events, including prints and contact sheets for Blobaum's work with Senator Gaylord Nelson and Senator and later Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Blobaum's own Congressional campaigns, the National Crisis Action Rally (1985), publicity shots for a John Conlee concert (1985), a Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) conference, 1990; and a consultation in Japan.

Researchers looking for a specific period of Blobaum's career should be aware that he held many of his appointments and board and committee responsibilities concurrently. The file for the WSAA, for example, may also contain files from his time as Director of Americans for Safe Food and as President of Blobaum & Associates, his consulting firm.

Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Publications (M2014-106)
Gaylord Nelson Papers, 1954-2006 (bulk 1963-1980) (Mss 1020)
Robert and Martha Wells Lewis Papers, 1889-2009 (bulk 1941-2009) (Mss 1072)
Cultivating a Movement: An Oral History Series on Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming on California's Central Coast, University of California-Santa Cruz

For additional Roger Blobaum papers, please see Iowa State University Special Collections and University Archives.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Roger Blobaum, Washington, D.C., 2013-2015 and 2015-2017. Accession Number: M2014-096, M2023-082

Processing Information

Processed by Julia Wong, April 2015 and April 2024.

Mss 1169	Series: Correspondence
Box   19 Folder   1	A, 1974-1979
Box   19 Folder   2	Action Center, 1977-1978
Box   19 Folder   3	Agricultural Marketing Project, 1978-1979
Box   19 Folder   4	Alperovitz, Gar, 1978
Box   19 Folder   5	American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 1976-1978
Box   19 Folder   6	Arnot, Marie, 1977-1980
Box   19 Folder   7	Aulick, Mariana H., 1978
Box   1 Folder   1	B, 1978, 1980
Box   19 Folder   8	Becker, Ann, 1978-1980
Box   19 Folder   9	Bread for the World, 1977
Box   19 Folder   10	Brooks, Joseph, Emergency Land Fund, 1978
Box   19 Folder   11	C, 1974-1980
Box   19 Folder   12	Center for Community Organization and Area Development (CENCOAD), 1975
	Chinese agriculture
Box   19 Folder   13	Blue Ridge Films, 1976-1977
	Presentations
Box   1 Folder   2	General, 1975-1979, 2007
Box   1 Folder   3	Augustana College, 1977
Box   1 Folder   4	California State University, 1976
Box   19 Folder   14	Community Planning Organization (CPO), 1976
Box   1 Folder   5	Dakota Wesleyan University, 1975-1977
Box   19 Folder   15	Food Day, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), 1976-1977
Box   1 Folder   6	Midwest China Study Resource Center, 1978-1979
Box   19 Folder   16	Midwest Energy Alternatives Network, 1977
Box   1 Folder   7	Nebraska Agricultural Youth Council, 1978
Box   19 Folder   17	North Carolina State University (NCSU), 1979-1980
Box   1 Folder   8	Plambeck, Herb, 1975-1977
Box   1 Folder   9	Stitz, John, Rev., 1973-1986
Box   1 Folder   10	Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality (Lawrence Stevens, Con Schallau, and Alice Tetelman), 1974-1977
Box   19 Folder   18	Clark, Dick, Senator, 1975, 1977
Box   19 Folder   19	Cleveland Public Schools, 1975-1976
Box   19 Folder   20	Collins, Joseph, Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP), 1976-1977
Box   19 Folder   21	Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), 1976-1979
Box   19 Folder   22	Countryside, 1977
Box   1 Folder   11	D, 1976-1977
Box   19 Folder   23	Dauphin, Jeff, Michigan Coalition for Better Waste Management, 1978
Box   19 Folder   24	Dechant, Tony, National Farmers Union (NFU), 1977-1978
Box   19 Folder   25	Deknatel, Charles, 1978-1979
Box   19 Folder   26	Draper, Jim, 1976-1978
Box   1 Folder   12	E, 1977-1979
Box   19 Folder   27	Eccli, Eugene, Design Alternatives, 1977-1980
Box   19 Folder   28	Energy-Agriculture Project, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS), 1975-1976
Box   19 Folder   29	Enviro-Systems, Ltd., 1973-1975
Box   19 Folder   30	Exploratory Project for Economic Alternatives, 1976-1977
Box   1 Folder   13	F-I, 1974-1980
Box   1 Folder   14	Fernholz, Kay and Annette, 2010-2012
Box   19 Folder   31-34	Food Industry Advisory Committee, Department of Energy (DOE), 1977-1978
Box   19 Folder   35	Food Policy Center, 1979
Box   19 Folder   36	Foreman, Carol, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 1975, 1977
Box   19 Folder   37	Friend, Gil, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), Office of Appropriate Technology (OAT), 1977-1979
Box   19 Folder   38	Gaffney, Richard, Hampshire County Planning Department, 1976-1977
Box   19 Folder   39	Galusha, Emily, McKnight Foundation, 1980-1981
Box   1 Folder   15	General, 1992-2001, 2010-2014
Box   19 Folder   40	Governor's Committee on the United Nations (UN), 1976-1977
Box   19 Folder   41	H, 1975-1983
Box   19 Folder   42	Harkin, Tom, Representative, 1975-1979
Box   19 Folder   43	Henricks, Ron, 1974-1980 Note: Alternate spelling: Ron Hendrikson?
Box   19 Folder   44	Hildreth, R.J., The Farm Foundation, 1980
Box   19 Folder   45	Iowa Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), 1977
Box   19 Folder   46	Basin Advisory Committee, 1977-1978
Box   19 Folder   47	Iowa Farmers Union, Iowa Public Interest Research Group (IPIRG), 1975-1980
Box   1 Folder   16	J, 1979-1980
Box   1 Folder   17	K, 1977-1980
Box   1 Folder   18	Kaye, Ivan, 1976-1977
Box   1 Folder   19	Kemble, Keith, National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), 1979
Box   1 Folder   20	Kemp, Loni, 1993-1998
Box   1 Folder   21	Killmer, Rich, 1977
Box   1 Folder   22	Kramer, Mark, 1977, 1980
Box   1 Folder   23	L, 1973, 1976-1980
Box   1 Folder   24	Lange, Gerald F., 1974, 1976-1979
Box   1 Folder   25	Lockeretz, William, 1974-1980
Box   1 Folder   26	Mc, 1977-1980
Box   1 Folder   27	M, 1974-1980
Box   1 Folder   28	Mercier, Jean-Roger, 1979
Box   1 Folder   29	N, 1977-1980
Box   1 Folder   30	Norton, Duna, 1978
Box   1 Folder   31	O, 1977
Box   1 Folder   32	O'Meara, Noreen, 1980
Box   1 Folder   33	O'Toole, Jim, 1977
Box   1 Folder   34	Olson, Kenneth G., 1980
Box   1 Folder   35	Organic Gardening and Farming, 1975-1978
Box   1 Folder   36	Pending manuscripts, 1977
Box   1 Folder   37	Orvis, Deone, 1978-1980
Box   1 Folder   38	P, 1974, 1977-1980
Box   1 Folder   39	Piper, Odessa, 1998
Box   1 Folder   40	R, 1976-1980
Box   1 Folder   41	Reiman, Ray, 1977-1980
Box   1 Folder   42	Reinert, Charles, 1976, 1979
Box   1 Folder   43	S, 1973-1980
Box   1 Folder   44	Sackrey, Pat, 1976, 1978
Box   1 Folder   45	Sampson, Neil, 1976, 1980
Box   1 Folder   46	Schallau, Con H., 1975, 1978-1980
Box   1 Folder   47	Schneider, George D., Rev., 1977
Box   1 Folder   48	Seldman, Neil, Dr., 1979-1980
Box   1 Folder   49	Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), 1980
Box   1 Folder   50	Son, Randal, 1979-1980
Box   1 Folder   51	Sorenson, Gary W., 1977-1978, 1980
Box   1 Folder   52	Swanson, Larry D., 1979-1980
Box   1 Folder   53	T, 1977-1981
Box   1 Folder   54	Tennessee Valley Authority, 1979-1980
Box   1 Folder   55	U, 1973, 1978-1980
Box   1 Folder   56	U.S. mission to UN International Food Corps, 1979
Box   1 Folder   57	V, 1976-1977, 1980
Box   1 Folder   58	W, 1973, 1976-1980
Box   1 Folder   59	Webb, Ben, 1978-1980
Box   1 Folder   60	Wilson, Edith R., 1978
Box   1 Folder   61	Wolf, Ray, 1975-1977
Box   1 Folder   62	Yates, Stanley (Iowa State University), 1975-1977
Box   1 Folder   63	Z, 1979
	Series: Working Files Arrangement of the Materials: Alphabetical by organization or project name.	⇧
	Agricultural Marketing Project (AMP)
Box   1 Folder   64	Educational materials for students and parents, 1970s
Box   1 Folder   65-66	General, 1977-1980
Box   1 Folder   67	Newsletters, food fair related, 1977-1980 October/November
	Agricultural Marketing Project (AMP) appropriate technology (A.T.) project
Box   19 Folder   48	AMP general, 1976-1980
Box   19 Folder   49	AMP updates, 1977-1980
Box   19 Folder   50	Correspondence, 1976-1979
Box   19 Folder   51	Cost benefit analysis, 1976 December
Box   19 Folder   52	Funding proposals, 1976-1978
Box   19 Folder   53	Project evaluation, 1979
Box   19 Folder   54	Project updates, 1976-1978
Box   19 Folder   55	Tennessee farm outlook, 1977?
	A.T. International (ATI) Note: Private appropriate technology non-profit organization.
Box   19 Folder   56	Agency for International Development (AID), 1982-1983
	AID evaluation of ATI
Box   19 Folder   57-58	Comments, correspondence, 1981-1982
Box   20 Folder   1-2	Draft materials, 1982 March 25
Box   20 Folder   3	Blobaum, Roger, representing ATI, 1979-1982
Box   20 Folder   4-8	Board of Trustees materials, 1979-1982
Box   20 Folder   9	Briefing book, 1982 May
Box   20 Folder   10	Business and Technology Services, 1982
Box   20 Folder   11	Eco-ag studies, 1980-1981
Box   20 Folder   12	Field reports, 1981
Box   20 Folder   13	Finances, 1981-1982
Box   20 Folder   14	Funded projects, 1981
Box   20 Folder   15-17	Organizational profile, 1981 March
Box   20 Folder   18-19	Reports, 1979-1982
Box   20 Folder   20	Technology for the People trade fair, 1981 Note: Mexico City.
Box   20 Folder   21	Report: Development through Small Business and Creative Technology, U.S. Pavilion, 1982
Box   20 Folder   22	Third world development, 1979-1981
Box   20 Folder   23	Working paper: "Microenterprise Development in the Urban Informal Sector: case studies from Brazil and the Philippines," 1982
	Association of American Colleges (AAC)
Box   1 Folder   68	Trends 2000 Advisory Council, 1978
	Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA), State Sustainable Agriculture Programs project
Box   1 Folder   69	General, 1992-1996
Box   1 Folder   70	Sustainable development reports, 1990-1994
	Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE), Soul of Agriculture project
Box   1 Folder   71	Background materials, 1974-1999, undated
Box   1 Folder   72	California ethics meeting, “From Farm to Table: Animal Husbandry and Public Health: A symposium on agricultural values and issues,” 1998 May 12
Box   1 Folder   73	Conference presentations, 1997-1999
	Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (CSARE)
Box   1 Folder   74	Agricultural Ethics Task Force, 1997-1999
Box   1 Folder   75	Meeting, Amherst, 1998
Box   1 Folder   76	Coordinator reports, 1996-1998
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   77	General, 1997-1998
	With individuals
Box   1 Folder   78	Brown, Miriam, Sister, Churches' Center for Land and People (CCLP), 1997-1998
Box   1 Folder   79	Dundon, Stan, 1997-1999
Box   1 Folder   80	Tacheny, Mary Mark, Sister, 1996-1998
Box   1 Folder   81	Drafting Committee materials, 1996-1997
Box   1 Folder   82	Ethics document drafts and comments, 1997-1998
Box   1 Folder   83	Facilitated meeting, 1997 March 22-24
	Follow-up events
Box   1 Folder   84	Do We Share Common Values? (Minnesota Project), 1998 February
Box   1 Folder   84	Final project report follow-up, 1998 April 2
Box   1 Folder   85	Rural Life conference and Summer Get-Together, 1998 June 10-11
Box   1 Folder   86	Handover to new coordinator, 1998-1999
Box   2 Folder   1	National conference, 1997 November
Box   2 Folder   2	Correspondence with speakers, 1997
Box   2 Folder   3	Follow-up letters, 1997, 1999
Box   2 Folder   4	Participant lists, 1996-1998
Box   2 Folder   5	Planning Committee materials, 1996-1998
	Center for Rural Affairs (CRA)
Box   20 Folder   24	Agriculture issues, 1979-1993
Box   2 Folder   6	Annual reports and other materials, 1973-2001
Box   2 Folder   7	Board of Directors meeting, 1978 January
Box   20 Folder   25	Corporate hog takeover report, 1979
	Correspondence
	Belden, Joe
Box   2 Folder   8	Correspondence, 1978-1980
Box   2 Folder   9	Memos, 1978-1979
Box   2 Folder   10	General, 1974-1979
Box   2 Folder   11	Ralston, Don, 1973-1980
Box   2 Folder   12	Strange, Marty, 1975-1980
Box   20 Folder   26	History, 2015
Box   20 Folder   27-29	National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) study, 1979-1981 Note: Barriers, conversion to organic.
Box   2 Folder   13	Nebraska banking study, 1977
	Newsletter Note: See Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Publications, M2014-106.
Box   2 Folder   14	Omaha Municipal Wastes Conference, 1975-1976, 1978 Note: Blobaum, coordinator and moderator.
Box   2 Folder   15	Correspondence
	Small Farm Advocacy Project (SFAP)
Box   2 Folder   16	Correspondence, 1978-1979
	Newsletters: see .
Box   2 Folder   18	Weekly reports, 1978-1980
	Small Farm Energy Project (SFEP)
Box   20 Folder   30	Advisory Committee, 1977-1979
Box   20 Folder   31-32	Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition (C/LEC), 1976-1979
Box   20 Folder   33	Citizens United for Responsible Energy (CURE), 1974-1978
Box   20 Folder   34	Cooperator selection survey, 1976
	Correspondence
	General
Box   2 Folder   18-19	1973-1980
Box   20 Folder   35-36	1977-1980
Box   20 Folder   37	Boulanger, Clément, 1978
Box   21 Folder   1	Demmel, Dennis, 1976-1980 Note: SFEP staff memoranda.
Box   21 Folder   2	Hohmann, Mike, 1977
Box   21 Folder   3	Holmberg, Bill, 1977-1980
Box   21 Folder   4	Justice, Lincoln, Midwest Energy Alternatives (MEA), 1976-1979 Note: See also MEA newsletter in M2014-106.
Box   2 Folder   20	Kirkwood College, 1978
Box   21 Folder   5	Krupicka, Ron, 1977-1980
Box   2 Folder   21	McRobie, George, 1978-1979
Box   2 Folder   22	Meisner, Joseph, 1975, 1977-1978
Box   2 Folder   23	Neifert, Carl W., 1977-1978
Box   2 Folder   24	Nesbitt, Patricia M., 1979-1980
Box   2 Folder   25	Rands, Gordon P., 1978
Box   2 Folder   26	Sklar, Scott (NCAT), 1978-1980
Box   2 Folder   27	Steggell, Dorene, 1978
Box   2 Folder   28	Sullivan, Jim, 1978
Box   21 Folder   6	Walsh, Michaela, 1978-1979
Box   21 Folder   7	Farm alcohol project, 1977-1979, 1985
Box   21 Folder   8-9	Farm energy background, 1977-1986
Box   21 Folder   10-11	Forms, recordkeeping, 1976-1978
Box   21 Folder   12	Future potential of project, 1978-1980
Box   21 Folder   13	Green Thumb project, 1981-1983
Box   21 Folder   14	Kansas-Nebraska Energy Program, 1976-1977
Box   21 Folder   15	Landers, Ted, undated Note: Tape transcript of talk and chapter on Small Farm Energy Project.
Box   35 Folder   1	News clippings, 1976-1980, undated
	Newsletters: see .
Box   21 Folder   16	Presentations, circa 1976-1980
Box   21 Folder   17	Press releases, 1976-1980
Box   21 Folder   18	Project outreach, publicity, 1975-1979
Box   21 Folder   19-20	Project testimony, statements, 1977-1981
Box   21 Folder   21-22	Proposal development, 1976-1979
	Reports
Box   21 Folder   23	Final report: draft, 1978-1980?
Box   21 Folder   24	Progress reports, 1977-1979
Box   21 Folder   25	Quarterly and monthly reports, 1977-1982
Box   21 Folder   26	Reader survey and evaluation reports, 1978-1979
Box   21 Folder   27	Weekly reports, 1977-1978
Box   21 Folder   28	Seminars, other events, 1978-1979
Box   21 Folder   29	Slideshow, 1978-1980
Box   21 Folder   30	Slideshow presentations, 1977-1979
Box   2 Folder   29	Solar Energy Policy Forum, 1978
Box   21 Folder   31	Southern Cooperatives Energy Project, 1977
Box   21 Folder   32	Staff retreats, 1978-1979
Box   35 Folder   2	Workshops, other events, 1975-1977
Box   21 Folder   33-34	Workshops, 1976-1979
Box   21 Folder   35	Guthrie Center (February 24, 1979), 1978-1979
Box   21 Folder   36	Minnesota workshop (April 21, 1979), 1979
Box   21 Folder   37	Wheel of Fortune irrigation report, 1975-1976
	Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
	Americans for Safe Food (ASF)
Box   2 Folder   30	Biotech seminar, Brussels, 1990, 1992
Box   2 Folder   31	Calgene (GMOs), 1985, 1990-1991
	Conferences
Box   2 Folder   32	Ceres, 1991
Box   21 Folder   38	Participants, 1991
Box   2 Folder   33	International Conference on Agriculture for the 21st Century, 1990
Box   2 Folder   34	National Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Conferences, 1989-1992
Box   21 Folder   39	Participant lists, 1989-1992
Audio   1723A/10	Recordings, 1989 Note: Keynote addresses: Jim Hightower, Barry Commoner.
Audio   1723A/11-31	Recordings, 1989 Note: 21 tapes: set of 1-18, 20-22, same conference. Keynotes also Hightower and Commoner.
Audio   1723A/32	3rd National Conference on Organic/Sustainable Agriculture Policies, 1991 February Note: Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
Audio   1723A/33-43	4th National Conference on Organic/Sustainable Agriculture Policies, 1992 February Note: 11 tapes, missing no. 3.
Box   2 Folder   35	Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, 2nd annual food forum, 1990
Box   2 Folder   36	Consulting, 1988-1989
Box   2 Folder   37	Correspondence, 1988-1992, 2007, undated
Box   2 Folder   38	General, 1987, 1990-1991, 1998
	Keystone Center National Policy Dialogue on Food Safety and Pesticides
Box   2 Folder   39	Dialogue description and participants, 1990-1991, 1993
Box   2 Folder   40-42	Draft reports, 1991-1993
Box   2 Folder   43	Final report, pre-publication copy, 1993 September
Box   2 Folder   44	General, 1991, undated
Box   2 Folder   45-49	Plenary sessions, 1990-1992
Box   2 Folder   50	Report: National Hazardous Waste Management Strategies Project, 1989 June
	Work groups
Box   2 Folder   51-52	Agricultural practices, 1990-1992
Box   2 Folder   53	Imports and exports, 1990-1991
Box   2 Folder   54	Public relations and communications, 1991
Box   2 Folder   55	Research and development barriers, solutions, 1989-1992
Box   2 Folder   56	Risk assessment, 1988-1991
Box   2 Folder   57	Leadership training, 1991
Box   2 Folder   58	National Organic Standards Board application, 1991-1992
Box   2 Folder   59	Organic Foods Production Act implementation, 1991
Box   2 Folder   60	Publications, 1988-1990, 2006, undated
Box   2 Folder   61	Sustainable Agriculture State Programs project materials, 1988-1995
Box   3 Folder   1	Case studies (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, California), 1989-1990
Box   3 Folder   2	Other publications (Iowa, Maine, and general report on taxing pesticides), 1989-1990, 1995
Box   3 Folder   3	Workshop participant lists, 1991-1992
Box   3 Folder   4	Board of Directors meeting agenda, 1989 October 19
Box   3 Folder   5	Correspondence, 1988-1993
Box   3 Folder   6	General, 1974-1975, 1991, 2002, 2013
Box   3 Folder   7	Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), 2000-2001
Box   3 Folder   8	Report, pre-publication copy: “Functional Foods--Public Health Boon or 21st Century Quackery? An International Comparison of Regulatory Requirements and Marketing Trends,” 1999
	Ceres Trust Organic Research Initiative (ORI)
Box   21 Folder   40	Grants, 1999-2013
Box   21 Folder   41	Midwest organic researchers, 2009-2010
Box   21 Folder   42-43	Monthly reports, 2009-2013, 2020
Box   21 Folder   44	Presentations, 2010-2012
Box   3 Folder   9-19	Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL), 1991, 1994-2000, 2002
	Community Action Research Group (CARG)
Box   22 Folder   1	Articles of incorporation and by-laws, 1977
Box   22 Folder   2	Citizens Advisory Board, 1977-1980
Box   22 Folder   3	Press releases, 1977
	Community Farm Alliance (CFA)
Box   3 Folder   20-21	Annual meetings, 2001, 2003 Note: Keynote address, Blobaum, 2001.
Box   3 Folder   22	Board meetings, 2002
Box   3 Folder   23	Correspondence, 2002-2003 Note: With Executive Director Deborah Webb and CFA staff.
Box   3 Folder   24	Fundraising assistance, 2002
Box   3 Folder   25	Governor's office, response to Blobaum, 2000-2003
Box   3 Folder   26	Greenprint report, 2001 October
Box   3 Folder   27	Meeting handouts, 2002-2003
Box   3 Folder   28	Reports, 1994-2007 Note: Includes annual report (1994), biennial report (2000-2001), and project reports.
	“Bringing the Farm Economy Home to Kentucky's Small Farms and Local Communities” (Cornucopia report revisited), 2003
Box   3 Folder   29-33	Background materials, 2001-2003
	Drafts
Box   4 Folder   1	First, 2003
Box   4 Folder   2	Final (submitted), 2003
Box   4 Folder   3	Final report, 2003 September
	Food systems background reports
Box   4 Folder   4-5	General, 1999-2002
Box   4 Folder   6	Kentucky Cornucopia report, 1983
Box   4 Folder   7	University of Nebraska-Lincoln food systems report, 2001
Box   4 Folder   8	Community Services Administration (CSA), 1978-1979
	Small farm conference project
Box   22 Folder   4	General, 1978-1979
	Regional conferences
Box   22 Folder   5	Midwest, 1978
Box   22 Folder   6	Northeast, 1978-1979
Box   22 Folder   7	Northwest, 1978-1979
Box   22 Folder   8	Southeast, 1978
Box   22 Folder   9	Southwest, 1978
Box   22 Folder   10-11	Reports, 1978-1979
	Conference/Alternative State and Local Public Policies Note: See related publications held by the WHS Library: newsletter and Ways and Means
Box   22 Folder   12	Agriculture Project: "New Directions in American Agriculture, Land and Food Policy: A Time for State and Local Action" reports, 1977, 1979
Box   22 Folder   13	Conferences, 1975-1979
Box   22 Folder   14	Correspondence, 1977-1979
	Cornucopia Institute Note: See also photographs in PH 6898.
Box   22 Folder   15	Articles, papers, scorecards, 2006-2014
Box   22 Folder   16-19	Correspondence, 2004-2016
Box   22 Folder   20	Countryside Council activities report, 1974 February 28
	Democratic Party
	Blobaum for Congress Note: See also campaign photos in Visual Materials series.
	U.S. Representative, Fourth District
Box   22 Folder   21	Billboards, 1970
Box   22 Folder   22	"Blobaum Girls" youth group, 1970
Box   22 Folder   23	Campaign announcement, 1970
Box   35 Folder   3	Campaign issues, 1969-1970
Box   22 Folder   24	Campaign literature, 1970
Oversize Folder   1	Campaign promotional materials, 1970
Oversize Folder   2	Poster, 1970
Box   22 Folder   25	Campaign strategy, 1969-1970
Box   22 Folder   26	Correspondence, 1970-1975
Box   35 Folder   4	Endorsements, 1969-1970
Box   22 Folder   27	Event schedules, 1970
Box   22 Folder   28	County events, 1970
Box   22 Folder   29	Farmers for Blobaum, 1970
Box   22 Folder   30	Fundraising, 1969-1971
Box   22 Folder   31	Humphrey dinner (June 17, 1970), 1970
Box   22 Folder   32	News clippings, 1968-1972
Box   22 Folder   33	Press releases, 1970
Box   22 Folder   34-35	Scrapbooks, 1970
Box   22 Folder   36	Speeches, 1970
	U.S. Representative, Fifth District Note: Democratic primary.
Box   22 Folder   37	Campaign strategy, 1983-1984
Box   22 Folder   38	Correspondence, 1983-1984
Box   22 Folder   39	Endorsements, 1983-1984
Box   22 Folder   40	Family Farm Survival Plan, 1983
Box   22 Folder   41	News clippings, 1983-1984
Box   35 Folder   5	Petitions: Farm Unity, Family Farm Survival, 1984?
Box   22 Folder   42	Clark, Dick, Senator, correspondence, 1976-1978
Box   35 Folder   6	Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC), Iowa, 1970-1973
Box   22 Folder   43-44	Democratic Study Group (DSG), 1964-1970
Box   22 Folder   45-46	Farm plank, National Platform Committee, 1968, 1972
	Humphrey, Hubert H. (HHH) Note: See also HHH photos in Visual Materials series.
Box   22 Folder   47	Background, 1961-1978, 2013
	Senator, Vice President-Elect
Box   22 Folder   48-49	Trip schedules, press information, 1964
Box   23 Folder   1-4	Trip schedules, press information, 1964 (continued)
	1964 Vice-Presidential campaign
Box   23 Folder   5-6	Advancemen, 1964-1966
Oversize Folder   1	"The Advanceman" scripture, Campaign '64
Box   23 Folder   7	Campaign songs, 1964
	Vice-President (VP)
Box   23 Folder   8	Correspondence, 1965-1969
Box   23 Folder   9	Inauguration (January 20, 1965), 1964-1965
Box   23 Folder   10	Plane manifests, 1966 September-November
Box   23 Folder   11-12	Speechwriting, 1965-1968
Box   23 Folder   13	Staff correspondence, 1964-1968
Box   23 Folder   14-16	Travel schedules, 1966 Fall
	1968 Presidential campaign
Box   23 Folder   17	Agnew, Spiro, "Spying on Agnew," 1968
Box   23 Folder   18	Citizens for Humphrey, 1968
Box   23 Folder   19	Event organizing, 1968
	Farm campaign, 1968 Note: Rural Americans for Humphrey. Blobaum, Executive Director.
Box   23 Folder   20-21	Correspondence, 1968 April-September
Box   23 Folder   22	Democratic National Convention, 1968 June-September
Box   23 Folder   23-24	Farm issues, 1965-1968
Box   23 Folder   25	Lewis, Bob, advisor, 1959-1968
Box   23 Folder   26-27	Memos, 1968 May-September
Box   23 Folder   28	Setting up campaign, 1968 March-September
Box   23 Folder   29	Short, Bob, staff reports to, 1968 June-August
	Nelson, Gaylord, Senator
Box   23 Folder   30	Blobaum staff appointment, 1964 June
Box   23 Folder   31-32	Corporate farms, 1968-1975
Box   23 Folder   33	Goldschmidt, Walter study, 1971-1972
Box   23 Folder   34	DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) ban, 1966-1970, 2003, 2009
Box   23 Folder   35	Diet-heart project, 1971-1972 Note: Correspondence with William Eckles and Robert "Bob" Lewis.
Box   23 Folder   36	Farm/rural issues, 1965-1966, 1977
Box   23 Folder   37	Wildlife payments, 1965-1968
Box   23 Folder   38	Robinson, Cloyd, campaign, 1971 January
	Family Farm Defense Fund (FFDF)
Box   23 Folder   39	Articles of incorporation, by-laws, founding documents, 1985-1987
Box   23 Folder   40	Tax exempt status, 1985-1989
	Board of Directors
Box   23 Folder   41	Board, staff, 1985-1987
Box   23 Folder   42	Executive Director's reports, 1985-1988
Box   23 Folder   43-44	Meeting materials, 1985-1988
Box   23 Folder   45-47	Correspondence, 1985-1988 Note: Including close-down correspondence, memos, 1988.
Box   24 Folder   1-2	Farm Aid, 1985-1987
Box   24 Folder   3	Mugar, Carolyn, correspondence, 1986-1987
	Farm crisis
Box   24 Folder   4-5	Background, 1984-1987
Box   24 Folder   6-9	Farmer resources, 1984-1987
Box   24 Folder   10	Legislation, 1986-1988
Box   24 Folder   11	Farmers requesting help, 1986-1987
Box   24 Folder   12-13	Fundraising, 1985-1988
Box   24 Folder   14	Penny Project, 1987
Box   24 Folder   15	Legal services, 1986-1988
Box   24 Folder   16	Brief bank proposal, 1987
Box   24 Folder   17-18	Court case documents, 1986-1987
Box   24 Folder   19	Legal projects reports, 1987-1988
Box   24 Folder   20	Pro bono lawyers, 1986-1988
Box   24 Folder   21	Lender bias project, 1987
Box   24 Folder   22	Mailing list, 1987 October 14
Box   24 Folder   23	Media, 1985-1987
Box   24 Folder   24	Publications, 1987 Note: Farm crisis resource directory, bankruptcy manual.
	Reports
Box   24 Folder   25	Monthly, 1986-1988
Box   24 Folder   26	Quarterly, 1986-1988
Box   24 Folder   27	Speech to Grange, 1987 November 12
Box   24 Folder   28	Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE) lawsuit, 1987-1988 Note: Women's Farm Law Project.
Box   24 Folder   29-30	Case documents, 1987-1988
	Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Box   4 Folder   9	Soth, Lauren, correspondence, 1979 Note: Includes Blobaum comments on FAO report on world food issues.
Box   4 Folder   10	World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (WCARRD), 1978-1979
Box   24 Folder   31	Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), 1999
	Institute for Alternative Agriculture (IAA) Note: Later known as the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture and the Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural & Environmental Policy.
Box   4 Folder   11	Annual reports, 1984-1986, 1991, 1993-1996
Box   4 Folder   12	Appeal letters, 1983, 1985, 1994, 2001
Box   24 Folder   32	Biotechnology, 1984-1986
Box   4 Folder   13	Board of Directors, 1983-1986
Box   24 Folder   33	Monthly Executive Director letters, 1983-1986
Box   4 Folder   14	Correspondence with Garth Youngberg, news clippings, 1979-1986, 1998
Box   24 Folder   34	Funding, 1983-1986, 1997
Box   24 Folder   35	General, 1983-1986 Note: Includes articles of incorporation and by-laws.
Box   4 Folder   15	Grant proposal, circa 1983
Box   4 Folder   16	Journal and newsletter planning, 1983-1986 Note: See Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Publications, M2014-106, for newsletters.
Box   24 Folder   36	Occasional papers, No. 1: On Farm Research Techniques, Report on a Workshop, No. 2: An Agenda for Research on the Impacts of Sustainable Agriculture, 1991 March, July
Box   24 Folder   37	Policy memos, 1983, 1995-1998
	Reports Note: See Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Publications, M2014-106.
Box   4 Folder   17	Symposium, 1984-1987, 1991-1993
Box   24 Folder   38	International Family Farm Consultation, Canada, 1979
	International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM)
Box   4 Folder   18	Animal standards, 1991, 2006
Box   4 Folder   19	Annual reports, 1998, 2000-2003
Box   4 Folder   20	Basic standards drafts, 1996, 1998, 2001
Box   4 Folder   21	BioFach, 1996-1999, 2001-2005
Box   4 Folder   22	Biofair, Costa Rica, 1995
Box   4 Folder   23	Brochures, 1992, 1997-2002, 2006
Box   4 Folder   24-25	Conferences, 1978, 1992-1996, 1998-2006, 2008
Box   4 Folder   26	Correspondence, 1995-2009
Box   4 Folder   27	European Action Plan, 2000, 2004
Box   4 Folder   28	General, 1989-2006, undated
Box   4 Folder   29	Growing Organic program, 2001
Box   4 Folder   30	Guarantee system (OGS), 2001-2007
Box   4 Folder   31	IFOAM Accreditation Program (IAP) Seal, 1996-1999, 2002, 2006
Box   4 Folder   32	Meetings, 1991, 1996-1998, 2002-2006
Box   4 Folder   33	Membership, Blobaum & Associates, 1996, 1999, 2002
	Newsletter Note: See Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Publications, M2014-106.
Box   4 Folder   34	Organic leadership course, 2012-2013
Box   4 Folder   35	Planning, 1996, 2001-2009
Box   4 Folder   36	Position papers and press releases, 1992-1993, 2000-2009
Box   4 Folder   37-38	Proposed Benchmark for Standards, 2007
Box   4 Folder   39	Standards Committee, 1996-2008
Box   4 Folder   40	Vaupel, Suzanne, 1993, 1998-2003
	International Organic Accreditation Services (IOAS)
Box   4 Folder   41	Accreditation criteria, 1997-1998, 2000
	Accredited Certification Bodies (ACB)
Box   4 Folder   42	General, 1997, 1999-2003
Box   4 Folder   43	Lists, 1996-1997, 1999-2003
Box   4 Folder   44	Annual reports and updates, 1996-1998, 2001-2008, 2012
Box   4 Folder   45	Articles of incorporation and by-laws, 1997
	Board of Directors
Box   4 Folder   46	Accreditation Committee (IFOAM International Programme Board, or IAPB), 1995-2006
Box   4 Folder   47	Board meetings, 1996-1999
Box   5 Folder   1	Canada/Quebec, 1998-1999, 2001, 2005-2007
Box   5 Folder   2	Comments on IFOAM, 1997-2008
Box   5 Folder   3	Commins, Ken, statements, 1996, 2001, 2006
Box   5 Folder   4	Correspondence, 1995-2008
Box   5 Folder   5	Equivalence, 1996, 2003-2004
Box   5 Folder   6	European Union (EU) regulations, 1996-2006
Box   5 Folder   7	General information, 1998-2004, 2011
Box   5 Folder   8	Guide to Compiling Documentation for Organic Certification Bodies, 2002
Box   5 Folder   9-10	International Accreditation Forum (IAF), 1997-2005
	IFOAM Accreditation Program (IAP)
Box   5 Folder   11	Agreement between IFOAM and IOAS, 1995, 2001
Box   5 Folder   12	Application form, 1999, 2001
Box   5 Folder   13	Articles of incorporation and by-laws, 1996-1998
Box   5 Folder   14	Operating manuals, 1995, 1998, 2001, undated
Box   5 Folder   15	Survey, 2005
Box   5 Folder   16	Training sessions, 2000, 2006
Box   5 Folder   17	IFOAM seal, 1996-1999, 2002, 2005
Box   5 Folder   18	IFOAM/AOS comparison, 2000
Box   5 Folder   19	IFOAM/OTA memorandum of understanding, 1998-2001
Box   5 Folder   20	Independence from IFOAM, 1996, 1999-2000, 2005-2006
Box   5 Folder   21-22	ISEAL Alliance, 2000-2008
Box   5 Folder   23	ISO 65, 1993, 1996-2002, 2006
Box   5 Folder   24	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) evaluation, 2001-2003
	Policy manual
Box   5 Folder   25	IFOAM accreditation, 2000
Box   5 Folder   26	Resources, 2000
Box   5 Folder   27	Quality manuals, 1998 May and September, 2000 December
Box   5 Folder   28	Reports to authorities, 1998-1999, 2006-2007
Box   5 Folder   29	Sauer, Jan, review, 1998-1999
Box   5 Folder   30	United Kingdom (UK) standards, 2001
Box   5 Folder   31	USDA issues, 1996, 1998-2002
Box   5 Folder   32	Van Elzakker, Bo, 2000-2002
	Iowa environment
Box   24 Folder   39	General, 1970-1973
Box   24 Folder   40	Iowa Citizens for Environmental Quality (ICEQ), 1971-1972 Note: Highway system environmental impact.
	Iowa Confederation of Environmental Organizations (ICEO), 1971-1972
Box   24 Folder   41	General, 1971-1972 Note: Highway system environmental impact.
Box   24 Folder   42-43	Board of Directors meeting materials, 1971-1972
	Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Box   24 Folder   44	General, 2000-2001
Box   24 Folder   45	Trauger, David L., 1987-1988
	Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (MFAI)
Box   24 Folder   46	Articles of incorporation, by-laws, 1983
Box   24 Folder   47	Board of Directors materials, 1991-1992, 1997-1999 Note: Blobaum, part-time executive director, 1992.
Box   24 Folder   48	Events, 1991-1999
Box   24 Folder   49	History, 2010, 2014
Box   25 Folder   1	Papers, bulletins, 1992-1998, undated
Box   25 Folder   2	Projects, 1990-1998
Box   25 Folder   3	International, 1992-1994
Box   25 Folder   4	Issues in Sustainable Agriculture project, 1991-1992 Note: Includes Bulletin No. 2, 1992: Issues in Sustainable Agriculture: What Are the Next Steps? / by Cheryl Miller.
Box   25 Folder   5	Updates, 1992-1998
	Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)
Box   5 Folder   33	Annual reports, 2001-2002, 2007-2008, 2010
Box   5 Folder   34	Articles of incorporation and by-laws, 1999-2000
Box   5 Folder   35	Behar, Harriet, National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) nomination, 2011
Box   5 Folder   36	Board and staff lists, 2004-2013
Box   5 Folder   37-48	Board meeting materials, 2000-2002, 2004-2010
Box   6 Folder   1-5	Board meeting materials, 2011-2013
Box   6 Folder   6	Blobaum welcome and retirement, 2005, 2013-2014
Box   6 Folder   7	Book lists, 2000-2002, undated
Box   6 Folder   8	By-laws revision, 2006, 2011
Box   6 Folder   9	Cornucopia Institute issues, 2009-2012 Note: See also Cornucopia Institute correspondence, 2014.
Box   6 Folder   10	Direct mail campaign, 2000-2002, 2009-2010, 2012
Box   6 Folder   11	Executive Director evaluation, 2005
Box   6 Folder   12	Fact sheets, 2005-2007, 2012
Box   6 Folder   13	Farmer of the Year, 2003, 2006-2012
Box   6 Folder   14	Founding meeting, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, 1999 December 2
Box   6 Folder   15	Fundraising, 2000-2002, 2006, 2008
Box   6 Folder   16	Fundraising program (Blobaum), 1999-2008
	Grant files
Box   6 Folder   17	Cavaliere Foundation, 2000
Box   6 Folder   18	Education program strengthening, 2001-2002
Box   6 Folder   19	Information and education, 2001-2002
Box   6 Folder   20	Organic farming information and referral system, undated
Box   6 Folder   21	Organic farming incentives, 2000
Box   6 Folder   22	Organic research forum, 2010-2011
Box   6 Folder   23	Organic showcase, 2000-2001
Box   6 Folder   24	Organization strengthening, 2000
Box   6 Folder   25	Other programs, 2007, 2010
Box   6 Folder   26	Outreach enhancement, 2001-2002
Box   6 Folder   27	Professional development (SARE), 2001-2002
Box   6 Folder   28	Wedgeshare support, 2000
	Jones, Faye
Box   6 Folder   29	Memos to, 1999-2003, 2010
Box   25 Folder   6	Recognition, 2014-2015
Box   6 Folder   30	Leadership workshop, 2005
Box   6 Folder   31	Mentoring project, 2007-2011, 2013
Box   6 Folder   32	Organic Broadcaster (newsletter) Committee, 2003-2010
Box   6 Folder   33	“Inside Organics” columns, circa 2000s, 2003-2010
Box   6 Folder   34	Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) education events, 1996-1999, undated Note: Pre-MOSES.
Box   6 Folder   35	Organic Resource Directory project, 2000-2001, 2003, 2010
	Organic University
Box   6 Folder   36	Annual reports and evaluations, 2000-2008, 2012
Box   6 Folder   37	Correspondence, 2000-2003
	Course notebooks
Box   25 Folder   7	Compost: At the Heart of Organics, 2003 February 27
Box   25 Folder   8	Farm Energy: Conservation and Alternatives, 2008
Box   25 Folder   9	Grazing the Organic Way, 2007
Box   6 Folder   38	Organic Agriculture 101, 2006
Box   25 Folder   10	Organic Agriculture and Biodynamic Methods, 2009
Box   25 Folder   11	Organic Basics: Organic Production and Certification: Crops, Livestock and Vegetables, 2008
Box   25 Folder   12	Organic Dairy Production, 2007
Box   25 Folder   13	Producing Seed & Breeding Crop Varieties on Organic Farms, 2006
Box   25 Folder   14	Transitioning to Organic Crop Production, 2008
Box   6 Folder   39	Funding proposal, circa 2000
Box   6 Folder   40	Implementation, 2000-2009, 2013
Box   6 Folder   41-45	Planning meetings, 2003, 2005, 2007-2008, 2012
Box   6 Folder   46	Policy documents, 2004-2008, 2012
Box   6 Folder   47-65	Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference (UMOFC), 1993-2016 Note: As of 2008, this conference is known as the MOSES Organic Farming Conference.
	Midwest Organic Services Association (MOSA)
Box   25 Folder   15	General, 1999-2005
Box   25 Folder   16	Board materials, 2005-2006
Box   25 Folder   17	Executive Director, 2005
Box   25 Folder   18	Quality, program manuals, 2003-2006
Box   25 Folder   19	Staff reports, 2004-2005
	Midwest Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (MSAWG)
Box   7 Folder   1	Appropriations, 1993-1998
Box   7 Folder   2	Funding, 1992-1994, 1997
Box   7 Folder   3	General, 1991-1997, 2003
Box   7 Folder   4	Livestock issues report, 1992-1998
Box   7 Folder   5-23	Meeting materials, 1992-1999
Box   7 Folder   24	Member lists, 1993-1997
Box   7 Folder   25	Mission and planning, 1990-1999
Box   7 Folder   26	National policy issues agenda proposals, 1997
Box   7 Folder   27	Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (SAC) connection, 1992-1996
Box   7 Folder   28-30	“Washington, D.C. Reports,” 1995-2001, 2004
Box   25 Folder   20	National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board, 1979-1980
	National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture (NCSA)
Box   7 Folder   31-39	Appropriations, 1993, 1995-1996, 2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2009-2010
Box   7 Folder   40	Board of Directors, 2003-2005
Box   7 Folder   41	Brown bag lunches, Washington, D.C., 1994-2003
Box   7 Folder   42	Composting standards, 2001-2003
Box   7 Folder   43	Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), 1995, 2005-2006, undated
Box   7 Folder   44	Cost share program development, 1998-2006, 2009
Box   7 Folder   45-48	Farm bills, Campaign involvement, 1995, 2002, 2007
Box   7 Folder   49-50	First proposed rule fight, 1998-2000
Box   7 Folder   51	Certifier issues, 1998-2004
Box   7 Folder   52	Fundraising, 1992-1999, 2003
Box   7 Folder   53	General, 1993, 1998, 2006, undated
Box   25 Folder   21-22	Harvey decision follow-up, 2004-2005
Box   7 Folder   54	Harvey decision follow-up, 2005-2006
Box   7 Folder   55	IFOAM, 1995-2001
	Issue files
Box   7 Folder   56	Access to pasture, 2000-2006
Box   7 Folder   57	Accreditation, 1997-2004, 2008-2009
Box   7 Folder   58	Conflict of interest, 2001-2003, 2006
Box   7 Folder   59	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pamphlet flap, 1998
Box   7 Folder   60	European Union organic, 2000
Box   7 Folder   61	Floor vs. ceiling controversy, 2001
Box   7 Folder   62	GMO and biotechnology, 1995-2006
Box   7 Folder   63	Inerts, 2002
Box   7 Folder   64	Marketing order controversy, 2003
Box   7 Folder   65	Miscellaneous, 2001-2004
Box   7 Folder   66	National Organic Program, ex parte, 1998
Box   7 Folder   67	Organic feed controversy, 2002-2003, 2007
Box   7 Folder   68	Peer review panel, 2001-2005, 2009
Box   8 Folder   1	Processing materials, 1999-2005
Box   8 Folder   2	Thinking paper, 1998-1999
Box   8 Folder   3	Trade related, 1992-1994, 2001-2002
	Meeting materials
Box   8 Folder   4	66 Points of Darkness, 1998
Box   8 Folder   5-8	Annual meetings, 1997-2002, 2004
Box   8 Folder   9	Dialogue meeting, Reno, Nevada, 1993
Box   8 Folder   10	Founding meeting, 1992
Box   8 Folder   11-13	National Dialogue on Sustainable Agriculture, national meetings, 1993-1994
Box   8 Folder   14	Working session, 1993
Box   8 Folder   15	National Sustainable Agriculture Coordinating Council (NSACC) and issue committee materials, 1992- 2006
Box   8 Folder   16	News clippings, 1994-1996, 2012
	Newsletters (incomplete runs)
Box   8 Folder   17	Ag Matters, 2002-2008
Box   8 Folder   17	E-newsletter (print-outs), 2003-2004
Box   8 Folder   18	Monthly Update, 1994 June, August
Box   8 Folder   19	News and Resources from the Field, 2005-2006
Box   8 Folder   20	Update, 1995-2002
	Organic Committee
Box   8 Folder   21	American Organic Standards (AOS) initiative, 1998-1999 Note: Includes AOS Draft 3: October 1, 1999.
Box   8 Folder   22-23	Farmers' Legal Action Group (FLAG) involvement in Massachusetts Independent Certification Inc. (MICI) chicken issue, 2002-2004, 2006 Note: See also Country Hen dispute in Subject Files series.
Box   8 Folder   24	Kind, Congressman Ron, organic bill, 2001, 2006-2007
Box   8 Folder   25	Meeting, 2004 October
Box   8 Folder   26	Structure, 1994-2006
Box   8 Folder   27	Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) implementation report card, 2002
Box   8 Folder   28	Organic research and extension, 1992-1994, 2003-2006
Box   8 Folder   29	President's Council on Sustainable Agriculture, 1993-1995
Box   8 Folder   30	Regional workshops, 1992-1993
Box   8 Folder   31	Revised rule response, 1998-2003
Box   8 Folder   32	Staffing, 1993-1994, 2002-2007
Box   8 Folder   33	Supporting organizations, 1994-2003
Box   8 Folder   34	Tabard meeting, 2005
	National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
Box   25 Folder   23	General, 1977-1978
Box   25 Folder   24	NCAT/Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA) correspondence, 1977-2005
	National Coalition for Land Reform (NCLR) Note: Roger Blobaum, Midwest organizer, director.
Box   25 Folder   25	General, 1971-1975
Box   25 Folder   26	Board of Directors, 1972-1976
	Center for Rural Studies (CRS) conferences
Box   25 Folder   27-28	Midwest (November 23-25, 1973), 1973-1974, 1977 Note: Roger Blobaum, conference chair.
Box   25 Folder   29-30	National (April 25-28, 1973), 1973
Box   25 Folder   31	Correspondence, 1968-1975
Box   25 Folder   32	Draper, Jim, Center for Rural Studies (CRS), 1973-1974
Box   35 Folder   7	Land reform articles, 1969-1976
Box   25 Folder   33	NCLR/ Center for Rural Studies (CRS) fundraising, 1972-1975
Box   25 Folder   34	NCLR/CRS political action, 1971-1975
Box   25 Folder   35	Other land conferences, 1973-1976
Box   25 Folder   36	Taylor, Paul, 1972-1975
	National Farmers Organization (NFO) Note: Roger Blobaum, director, public relations.
Box   35 Folder   8	Conlee, John concert, 1985 Note: Benefit for Family Farm Defense Fund (FFDF). See also FFDF files.
Box   26 Folder   1	Farm Aid concert, 1985
	National Crisis Action Rally (February 27, 1985)
Box   26 Folder   2	Day-by-day diary, 1985 February 8-24
Box   26 Folder   3	Farm crisis conference (January 17-18, 1985) report
Box   26 Folder   4	Mending a Broken Heartland: Community Response to the Farm Crisis : draft / by Joyce Barrett, 1987 January
Box   35 Folder   9	Planning, 1984-1985
Box   26 Folder   5	Post-rally correspondence, 1985 February-April
Box   26 Folder   6	Presentations, 1985 February
Box   35 Folder   10	Publicity, news clippings, 1985 February-April
VHD 399	Video recording: "Ames Iowa Farm Rally Feb. 85 sponsored by NFO-NFU-WIFE and others" Physical Description: VHS, 240 minutes.
Mss 1169 Box   26 Folder   7	National Institute for Work and Learning (NIWL), 1980-1981
	National Organic Coalition (NOC)
Box   26 Folder   8	General, 2003-2016
Box   26 Folder   9	Accredited Certifiers Association (ACA), 2005, 2014
Box   26 Folder   10	Congressional testimony, 2006-2014
Box   26 Folder   11	Correspondence with USDA, 2006-2016
Box   26 Folder   12	Fact sheets, 2006-2016
Box   26 Folder   13	Farm Bill, appropriations summaries, 2007-2016
Box   26 Folder   14	Meeting notes, 2012-2015
Box   26 Folder   15	NOSB issues, 1999-2015
Box   26 Folder   16	Organic checkoff issues, 2015
Box   26 Folder   17	Policy recommendations, 2007-2016
Box   26 Folder   18	Pre-NOSB meeting, 2016 April
	National Rural Center (NRC)
Box   26 Folder   19	General, 1977-1981
Box   8 Folder   35	Economy of Rural America conference, 1980
Box   8 Folder   36	Energy rural policy seminars, 1980
	Small farms project
Box   26 Folder   20-22	Advisory board, 1978-1980
Box   26 Folder   23	Correspondence, 1977-1980
Box   26 Folder   24-25	Reports, Phase I, II, 1978, 1980
Box   8 Folder   37	Small farms policy workshop, 1977
Box   26 Folder   26	Tax policy, 1981-1982
Box   8 Folder   38	Northeast Organic Farmers Association-New Jersey (NOFA-NJ), 1989-1998, 2013-2015
	Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
Box   8 Folder   39	Task Force on Appropriate Technology, 1978
	U.S. Food and Agricultural Research Advisory Committee Note: Also local development, dispersed electric generating technologies.
Box   8 Folder   40	1974-1979
Box   26 Folder   27-28	1979-1982
Box   26 Folder   29	General accounting office (GAO) study, 1976 April 9
Box   26 Folder   30	Paper and report drafts, 1980
	Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust
Box   8 Folder   41	General, 1991-1997
	Conferences
Box   8 Folder   42	Culinary Issues, 1993
Box   8 Folder   43	Food Choices, 1993
Box   8 Folder   44	Baum, Joe Forum, 2000
Box   8 Folder   45	Mediterranean Diets, 1993
	Oregon Tilth
Box   26 Folder   31	Musick, Mark, correspondence, 1975-2015
	Organic Farmers Association for Relationship Marketing (OFARM)
Box   26 Folder   32	General, 2008-2009, 2014
Box   26 Folder   33	Annual meetings, 2001-2010
Box   26 Folder   34	Strategic planning, 2016
	Organic Farmers Associations Council (OFAC)
Box   8 Folder   46	Annual meeting materials, 1991-1994
Box   8 Folder   47-48	Board of Directors meeting minutes and materials, 1990-1992
Box   8 Folder   49	Brochure, circa 1992
Box   8 Folder   50	By-laws and articles of incorporation, 1991-1992
Box   8 Folder   51	Certification/accreditation, 1991-1992
	Colorado Organic Producers Association (COPA)
Box   8 Folder   52	Correspondence, 1990-1992
Box   8 Folder   53	Mailing/contact lists, 1991-1992
Box   9 Folder   1	Meeting materials, 1991-1992
Box   9 Folder   2	Committees, 1990-1991, undated
Box   9 Folder   3-9	Steering Committee, 1989-1992, undated
Box   9 Folder   10	Defining “organic,” 1988-1992
Box   9 Folder   11	Computer networks, 1991-1993
Box   9 Folder   12	Conference, Organic Farmers' Leadership and Planning, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 1990
	Correspondence
Box   9 Folder   13	Ardapple-Kindberg, Eric, 1990, 1993-1994
Box   9 Folder   14	Consumer inquiries, 1990-1992
Box   26 Folder   35-36	General, 1990-1993
Box   9 Folder   15	General, 1990-1994
Box   9 Folder   16	Henderson, Elizabeth, 1992-1994
Box   9 Folder   17	Letterhead
Box   9 Folder   18	Membership letters
Box   9 Folder   19	Organic Foods Production Association of North America (OFPANA), 1990-1991, undated
Box   9 Folder   20	Inputs survey (Zea Sonnabend), 1991
Box   9 Folder   21	Development plan, 1990-1991
Box   9 Folder   22	Dissolution papers, 1994, undated
Box   9 Folder   23	Financial, 1989-1993
Box   9 Folder   24	Fundraising, corporate contributions, 1991
Box   9 Folder   25	General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 1991
Box   9 Folder   26	Grant files, circa 1989-1995
Box   9 Folder   27	Initial release materials, 1990-1991
	Interstate certification
Box   9 Folder   28	Natural Organic Farmers Association (NOFA) Interstate Council, Certification Committee, 1989-1992
	Northeast Interstate Organic Certification Committee (NIOCC)
Box   9 Folder   29-30	Correspondence, 1990-1994
Box   9 Folder   31	General, 1987-1994
Box   9 Folder   32	Mailing lists, 1993, undated
Box   9 Folder   33	Meeting minutes and materials, 1991-1994
Box   9 Folder   34	Other state certification organization materials, 1991-1994
Box   9 Folder   35	Legislative agendas, 1991-1993
Box   9 Folder   36	Mailing, contact, and membership lists, 1990-1994, undated
	Materials evaluation model, Lynn Coody
Box   9 Folder   37	Annotated copy, 1990 July 15
Box   9 Folder   38	Materials correspondence, 1990-1991
Box   9 Folder   39	Member mailings, 1992-1994
	Membership applications, 1990-1992
Box   9 Folder   40	Posted
Box   9 Folder   41	Unposted
Box   9 Folder   42	National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP) forum, 1993
	National Organic Standards Board (NOSB)
Box   9 Folder   43	Draft recommendations, 1993-1994
	Nominations
Box   9 Folder   44	Criteria, 1991-1992
Box   9 Folder   45-47	Nominees, 1990-1991
Box   9 Folder   48	Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) contacts, 1990-1991
	Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA)
Box   9 Folder   49	Congressional vote, 1990
Box   9 Folder   50	Forster, Thomas, commentary, 1990
Box   9 Folder   51	Implementation, 1991
Box   9 Folder   52	Testimony mailing and responses, 1993
Box   9 Folder   53	Organic Foods Production Association of North America (OFPANA) teleconferences, 1991
Box   9 Folder   54-55	Organic livestock, 1991-1994
Box   10 Folder   1	Ozarks leadership and planning conference, 1990 November/December
Box   10 Folder   2	Regional secretariats project, 1991-1994
Box   10 Folder   3	Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (SAWG), 1991-1992
Box   10 Folder   4	Tax exempt status, 1992-1994
Box   10 Folder   5	United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, also known as Earth Summit), 1991-1992
Box   10 Folder   6	Working notes, undated
Box   26 Folder   37	Organic farmer voice, 2004, 2006, 2016
	Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF)
Box   26 Folder   38	Annual reports, 2001, 2012-2014
Box   10 Folder   7	Articles of incorporation and by-laws, 1990-2000 Note: Includes other OFRF documents and Blobaum description of OFRF files.
	Board of Directors
Box   10 Folder   8	By-laws revision, 1998-2002
Box   10 Folder   9	Executive Committee meeting materials, 1997-2002
Box   10 Folder   10	Goals, 1996-2001
Box   10 Folder   11-16	Meeting materials, 1996-2002
Box   10 Folder   17	Member lists and information, 1995-2002
Box   10 Folder   18-19	Nominations Committee, 1996-2002
Box   10 Folder   20-21	Staff reports, 1993-2007
Box   10 Folder   22	Strategic planning, 2000-2001
Box   26 Folder   39	Correspondence, 1997-2015
Box   10 Folder   23-24	Farmer surveys, 1993-2004
Box   10 Folder   25	Federal research funding issues, 1998-2008
Box   10 Folder   26	Fundraising, 1994, 1997, circa 2001
Box   10 Folder   27	General, 1992-2001, 2005, 2012-2014
Box   10 Folder   28	Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) policy statement, 1999-2001
Box   10 Folder   29	Lobbying issues, 2000-2001
Box   10 Folder   30	National Organic Certifiers Directory, 1995
Box   10 Folder   31-34	News clippings regarding organic food and farming, 1995-2004
Box   10 Folder   35-36	Newsletter: OFRF Information Bulletin, 1995-2010
Box   10 Folder   37	Organic agriculture caucus, 1996, 2003, 2006
Box   10 Folder   38	Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) rules fight, 1997-2000
Box   10 Folder   39	Presentation to USDA, 1998
Box   10 Folder   40-42	Regulatory conferences, 1993, 1995, 1997-2001
	Reports
Box   10 Folder   43	“Investing in Organic Knowledge” / by Jane Sooby, 2006
Box   26 Folder   40	"Organic Farming for Health and Prosperity" / by Carolyn Dimitri et al., 2012 August
Box   10 Folder   44	“Searching for the 'O' Word” / by Mark Lipson (1997), 1995-2001
Box   11 Folder   1	“State of the States” / compiled by Jane Sooby (2001), 2000-2001
	Research grants
Box   11 Folder   2	Application process, 1995-2008
Box   11 Folder   3	Awards, 1995-2002, 2011
Box   11 Folder   4	Research policy project, 1995
	Scientific Congress on Organic Agriculture Research (SCOAR)
Box   11 Folder   5	General, 1998-2003
Box   11 Folder   6	Newsletter: SCOAR Bulletin, 2002-2007
Box   11 Folder   7	Report and final pre-publication draft: “2007 National Organic Research Agenda: Soils, Pests, Livestock, Genetics: Outcomes from the Scientific Congress on Organic Agricultural Research (SCOAR)” / by Jane Sooby, Jonathon Landeck, and Mark Lipson, 2007
	Organic Field School (OFS)
Box   11 Folder   8	Articles of incorporation and by-laws, 2008
Box   11 Folder   9	Board of Directors meeting materials, 2009-2012
Box   11 Folder   10	Correspondence regarding board service, 2009-2012
Box   11 Folder   11	Dissolution, 2014
Box   11 Folder   12	Fundraising, 2009-2012
	Meetings
Box   11 Folder   13	Action plan, 2009 November
Box   11 Folder   14	Visioning, 2009 June
Box   11 Folder   15	Staffing, 2012
	Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA)/National Organic Program (NOP)
Box   26 Folder   41	Access to pasture, 2006-2008
Box   26 Folder   42	Briefings, 1989, 1995
Box   11 Folder   16	Comments to National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), 1992, 1994
Box   11 Folder   17	Documents, 1990, 1992-1995
Box   11 Folder   18-23	First proposed rule, 1997 December
Box   11 Folder   24	66 Points of Darkness meeting (1998), 1997-1998
	Environmental Media Services
Box   11 Folder   25	Media report, 1998 June
Box   11 Folder   26	Press conference, 1998 April
Box   11 Folder   27	Organic certifiers meeting, 1998 April
Box   11 Folder   28-31	Public comments, 1998
Box   11 Folder   32	Demeter Association, 1998
Box   11 Folder   33	Organic Trade Association (OTA), 1998
Box   11 Folder   34	Re-write, 1998
	Final rule
Box   11 Folder   35	44 Points of Darkness, 2001
Box   11 Folder   36	Implementation, 2000-2003
Box   11 Folder   37-38	National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) final recommendations, 1992-2001
Box   11 Folder   39	Follow-up to Harvey decision, 2006
Box   11 Folder   40-41	General, 1990-2005
Box   11 Folder   42	Implementation, legal memos, 1991-1998
Box   26 Folder   43	Leahy, Senator Patrick, bill draft, 1989-1991
Box   26 Folder   44	Letter opposing change, 1995, 2005
Box   11 Folder   43	Mailing and contact lists, 1993, 1997, undated
Box   27 Folder   1-2	National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) issues, 1992-2017
Box   11 Folder   44	Organic Watch, 1998
Box   11 Folder   45	Political support, 1989, 1998
Box   12 Folder   1-3	Pre-OFPA certifier standards, 1990-1998
Box   27 Folder   3	Presentations, 1993-2014
Box   12 Folder   4	Private seal issue, 1995-1996, 2000-2001
	Revised proposed rule
Box   12 Folder   5	Comments, 2000-2001
Box   12 Folder   6-7	Draft, circa 2000
Box   12 Folder   8	Rules process, 1992-1999, 2002-2004
Box   27 Folder   4	Working groups, 1990-2004
	Organic Food Production Association of North America (OFPANA)/ Organic Trade Association (OTA)
Box   27 Folder   5	General, 1988-2006
Box   27 Folder   6	Action Alerts, updates, 1989-2008
Box   27 Folder   7	Advisory role, 1990
Box   27 Folder   8	Blobaum membership, 1992-2007
Box   27 Folder   9	Board of Directors materials, annual meeting, 1990-2004
Box   27 Folder   10	Government Affairs Council, 1993-1995
Box   27 Folder   11-12	Government affairs representative, 1992-1994
Box   27 Folder   13	Guidelines for the Organic Foods Industry packet, 1992 March 16 Note: Drafts, 1988-1992, from the Organic Foods Coalition: OFPANA, OFAC (Organic Farmers Association Council), and the Organic Food Act Implementation Working Group (OFAIWG).
Box   27 Folder   14	Press releases, marketing, 1992-2008
Box   27 Folder   15	USDA meetings, 1992-1995
Box   27 Folder   16-17	Organicology, 2013, 2015 Note: Mentoring intensives.
	Organic Trade Association (OTA)
Box   27 Folder   18	Accreditation Committee, 1995-1996
Box   27 Folder   19	Group Certification Task Force, 2007-2008
	Organic Watch
Box   12 Folder   9	Comparative analysis of NOSB recommendations and OTA's American Organic Standards, draft and final report, 1999-2000
Box   12 Folder   10-12	Proposed organic rule, 1997-2000, 2003, 2006
Box   12 Folder   13	Materials Provided for Use in Preparing Formal Comments on USDA's Proposed Rules Implementing the Organic Foods Production Act, 1998 January 16; updated 1998 February 12
	Roger Blobaum & Associates (RB&A) Note: Other projects in the papers such as the Urban Wastes Project (UWP) were also RB&A projects.
	Administrative
Box   12 Folder   14	Personnel policy, billing memo, 1980, undated
Box   12 Folder   15	Vitae, employees and consultants, Washington, D.C. office
	Control Data
Box   27 Folder   20	Princeton Project, 1979-1980
Box   27 Folder   21	Rural Venture, 1979-1980
	Energy project
Box   27 Folder   22-23	Appalachia, 1979-1981
	Iowa
Box   27 Folder   24-25	Clearfield, 1979-1982
Box   27 Folder   26	Corn cobs, 1979-1980
Box   27 Folder   27	Wyoming, 1980-1981
	Small farms conferences project: See Community Services Administration.
	Rural Advancement Fund (RAF) /National Sharecroppers Fund (NSF)
Box   27 Folder   28	General, 1976-1982
Box   27 Folder   29	Board of Directors materials, 1979-1982
Box   27 Folder   30	Correspondence, 1975-1983
Box   27 Folder   31-32	Department activity reports, 1974-1982
Box   27 Folder   33	Executive Director reports, 1970-1982
Box   27 Folder   34	Farm credit crisis, 1986
Box   27 Folder   35-36	Graham, Frank P. Center, 1974-1982
Box   27 Folder   37	Long-range planning, 1976-1981
Box   27 Folder   38	Projects and proposals, 1977-1983
Box   28 Folder   1	Statements, testimony, 1980
	Rural America
Box   28 Folder   2	General, 1977-1983
Box   28 Folder   3	Board of Directors, 1975-1984
Box   12 Folder   16	Correspondence, 1977-1980
Box   35 Folder   11	Platform, revised, 1977
Box   28 Folder   4	Solar Bank Project, 1982-1983
Box   12 Folder   17	Southwest State University Rural Life Institute, 1978
Box   12 Folder   18	Wefald, Jon, correspondence, 1976-1978
Box   35 Folder   12	Third National Conference on Rural America, 1976-1977
Box   12 Folder   19	Rural Resources, 1978-1980
	Solar energy
Box   28 Folder   5	American Solar Energy Society (ASES), 1982-1983
	Center for Renewable Resources (CRR)
Box   28 Folder   6	General, 1980-1981
Box   28 Folder   7	Relationship with Solar Lobby (SL), 1979-1981
Box   28 Folder   8-9	Reports, 1979-1982 Note: "Dear Friends" newsletters.
Box   28 Folder   10	Solar visioning, 1979-1980 Note: Second and third National Citizens' Solar Energy conferences.
	Midland Energy Institute (MEI) solar jobs report
Box   28 Folder   11	MEI general, 1978-1979
Box   28 Folder   12	Drafts, 1980
Box   28 Folder   13	Final version, 1980 December
Box   28 Folder   14-15	Project files, 1978-1980
Box   28 Folder   16	Rural gasification project, 1980
Box   28 Folder   17	Solar greenhouse employment project, 1978-1980
Box   28 Folder   18	Report proposal, 1980
Box   28 Folder   19-20	Research materials, 1978-1980
Box   28 Folder   21	Reviewers, 1980
Box   28 Folder   22	Miscellaneous, 1980-1994, undated
Box   28 Folder   23	Presentations, 1980-1986
Box   28 Folder   24-25	Renewable Energy Institute (REI), 1980-1983
Box   28 Folder   26-27	Farm Energy Project, 1980-1983, 1994
Box   12 Folder   20	Solar Age “Commentary” editorials, 1980
Box   28 Folder   28	Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), 1978-1981
	Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI)
Box   28 Folder   29-30	Advisory board, 1978-1982
Box   28 Folder   31	Photovoltaics, 1980 May
Box   28 Folder   32	Program descriptions, 1980 June
Box   28 Folder   33	Annual report, 1979
	Newsletter: See for In Review.
Box   28 Folder   34-36	Reports, papers, 1978-1980
Box   29 Folder   1	Reports, papers, 1980-1981
Box   29 Folder   2	Solar Energy Information Data Bank (SEIDB), 1979-1980
Box   29 Folder   3	Solar energy workshop, Department of Energy (DOE), 1980 Note: Florianopolis, Brazil.
Box   29 Folder   4	Brazil briefing book, 1980
	Solar Lobby (SL)
Box   29 Folder   5	Articles of incorporation, by-laws, policy statements, 1978-1981
Box   29 Folder   6-11	Board of Directors materials, 1978-1982
Box   29 Folder   12	Convention for a Solar America (August 16-19, 1979), 1979-1980
Box   29 Folder   13	Financial, 1980-1981
Box   29 Folder   14-16	Legislative updates, 1978-1986
Box   29 Folder   17	Member surveys, 1980-1981
Box   29 Folder   18	Political Action Committee (PAC), 1979-1981
Box   29 Folder   19	Publications, 1978-1981 Note: See also Sun Times newsletter in M2014-106.
Box   29 Folder   20	Staff updates, 1979-1980
Box   29 Folder   21-22	Sun Day (May 3, 1978), 1977-1982
	Southern Iowa Council of Governments (SICOG)
Box   12 Folder   21	Correspondence, 1976-1978
Box   12 Folder   22	General, 1977-1978
Box   12 Folder   23	Meeting minutes and materials, 1977-1978
Box   29 Folder   23-24	Non-Metropolitan Development Policy Committee, 1976-1978
	Reports
Box   12 Folder   24	“Iowa: 2000” final report, circa 1975
Box   12 Folder   24	“Rural Development ... Three Years in Perspective,” circa 1976
Box   12 Folder   25	“Rural Development - Iowa Style,” housing conference, 1977
Box   12 Folder   27	Rural health incentives proposal, 1977
Box   12 Folder   28	Rural Health Task Force, 1976-1977
Box   12 Folder   29	Southern Iowa Energy Project, 1978
Box   29 Folder   25	Tanzanian food corps, 1979 Note: Second International Workshop on Food Corps and Rural Development at the Village Level, Bellagio, Italy.
Box   29 Folder   26	University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center (SWROC) Organic Field Day, 2010
	Urban Wastes Project (UWP) Note: National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project in Omaha, Nebraska.
Box   29 Folder   27	Advisory, Overview Committees, 1977-1978
Box   29 Folder   28	Barriers proposal, 1981
Box   29 Folder   29	Holcomb, Larry, director, 1977
Box   29 Folder   30	Metro Area Planning Agency (MAPA) meetings, 1978
Box   29 Folder   31	Municipal wastes conference, 1976
Box   29 Folder   32	National conference participation, 1978
Box   29 Folder   33	Nebraska compost regulations, 1977-1978
Box   29 Folder   34	Other waste conferences, 1973-1978
Box   29 Folder   35	Project design, 1977
Box   29 Folder   36	Project evaluation, 1979
Box   29 Folder   37	Project follow-up, 1978-1979, undated
Box   30 Folder   1	Project reports, 1978-1979?
Box   30 Folder   2	Final report, 1979 January
Box   30 Folder   3	Publicity, 1978-1979
Box   30 Folder   4	Research proposal to NSF, 1976-1979
Box   30 Folder   5-7	Sludge on agricultural land issues, 1955-2010
Box   30 Folder   8	Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS) sludge project, 1977
Box   30 Folder   9	Sludge application challenges, 1975-2014
	Sludge newsletter, see .
	Washington University
	Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS)
Box   30 Folder   10	General, 1975-1986
Box   30 Folder   11	Advisory Committee, 1974-1976
Box   30 Folder   12	Correspondence, 1975-1979
Box   30 Folder   13-17	Organic farming study, 1974-1982, 2002
Box   30 Folder   18	Madden follow-up, 1986-1987
Box   30 Folder   19-20	Reports, research proposal, 1974-1979
Box   30 Folder   21	Wildlife refuges, making organic, 1979-1982 Note: Includes Del Akerlund paper.
	World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA)
Box   12 Folder   30	Brief description of WSAA files (Blobaum)
	Administrative files
Box   12 Folder   31	Articles of incorporation and by-laws, 1991-1995
Box   12 Folder   32	Associates, 1994-1996
	Board of Directors files
Box   12 Folder   33-35	Executive Committee meetings, 1991, 1993, 1995
Box   12 Folder   36-37	Meeting minutes and materials, 1991-1995
Box   13 Folder   1	Meeting minutes and materials, 1996-1997
Box   13 Folder   2	Nominations to board, 1992-1996
Box   13 Folder   3	Brochures, occasional paper (Kirschenmann, no. 1), 1987-1994
Box   13 Folder   4	Chapters, 1991-1995 Note: Includes materials related to inauguration of California chapter at California Polytechnic, 1992 July 17-18.
	Conferences
Box   13 Folder   5	Ceres, 1993
Box   13 Folder   6	Society for International Development (SID), 1994
Box   13 Folder   7	Summit on Religions and Conservation, 1995 April
	Correspondence
Box   13 Folder   8	General, 1991-1996
	With individuals
Box   13 Folder   9	Kawasaki, Michihiro “Mitch,” memos to, 1995-1996
Box   13 Folder   10	Madden, Patrick, memos to, 1991-1996
Box   13 Folder   11	Peng Jun, China Green Food Development Center (CGFDC), 1995-1997
Box   13 Folder   12	Directorates, 1991-1992, undated
Box   13 Folder   13	Founding meeting, Atami, Japan, 1991
Box   13 Folder   14	Fundraising, 1991-1997
Box   13 Folder   15	Goals and strategy, 1995-1997
Box   13 Folder   16	Internal reports, 1992-1997, undated
Box   13 Folder   17	Newsletter, 1992-1997
	Project files
Box   13 Folder   18	Albania proposal and background information, 1992
Box   30 Folder   22	Australia, 1993-1995, 2001
Box   13 Folder   19	Book project: For All Generations: Making World Agriculture More Sustainable, 1995-1996
Box   13 Folder   20	Brown Bag lunches, 1992-1997
	China
Box   13 Folder   21	Cheng Xu, China Agricultural University, 1993-1996
Box   13 Folder   22	China Green Food Development Center (CGFDC) trips, 1995-1997
Box   13 Folder   23	Correspondence and articles on Chinese agriculture, 1993-1996
Box   13 Folder   24-25	International Symposium on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (ISAARD) conference, Beijing, 1993 May
Box   13 Folder   26-27	Database project (organic and sustainable agriculture leaders), 1992-1997
	Eastern Europe
Box   13 Folder   28	General, 1993-1995
	Hungary
Box   13 Folder   29	General, 1993-1996
Box   13 Folder   30	Regional Environmental Center (REC)
	General, 1993-1995
Box   13 Folder   31	Grant summaries, 1991-1994
Box   13 Folder   32	Newsletter: Information Bulletin, 1991-1994
Box   13 Folder   33	Moldova: Field Crops Institute visit work plan, 1993-1997
Box   13 Folder   34	Organic updates, 1993-1994 Note: Includes Donna Batcho correspondence and reports.
	Nature Farming (Japan, India, Latin America), 1985-1997
Box   13 Folder   35	Correspondence, 1993-1997
Box   14 Folder   1	General information, 1985-1994
Box   14 Folder   2	Notes, undated
Box   14 Folder   3	Reports, articles, presentations, 1991-1995
Box   14 Folder   4	Training course, 1995 June
Box   14 Folder   5	Organic agriculture and certification standards, 1992-1997
Box   14 Folder   6	Pesticide reduction, 1992-1996
Box   30 Folder   23	Politics of Food, New York State, 1991-1993
Box   14 Folder   7	President's Council on Sustainable Development, 1994-1996
Box   14 Folder   8	Publication: From the Ground Up-and Around the World: Project profiles of grassroots initiatives in sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD) / Women, Food and Agriculture Working Group and World Sustainable Agriculture Association, 1995 September
Box   30 Folder   24	Restructuring proposal, 1993
Box   14 Folder   9	Rodale Soil Health Initiative, 1992-1993
Box   14 Folder   10	Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) proposal, 1994
Box   14 Folder   11	Taiwan, 1993-1995, 2013
Box   30 Folder   25	Thailand chapter, 1993-1994
	United Nations (UN)
Box   14 Folder   12-15	Commission for Sustainable Development, 1992-1997
Box   14 Folder   16-17	Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED/Earth Summit), Rio de Janeiro (June 1992), 1992-1994
Box   14 Folder   18	Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) IV (Pre-Summit), 1992
Box   14 Folder   19	WSAA inauguration, 1991 September 6
Box   30 Folder   26	Presentations on, 1992-1997
Box   30 Folder   27	Summit follow-up, 1993-1996
Box   14 Folder   20	International Conference on Nutrition (ICN, December 1992), 1992-1993 Note: Co-sponsored by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO).
Box   14 Folder   21	Sustainable Agriculture Networking and Extension (SANE) conference, 1993
Box   14 Folder   22	United Nations Association (UNA)/WSAA Roundtable, 1994-1995
Box   14 Folder   23-24	World Food Summit (November 1996), 1995-1997
Box   14 Folder   25	Venezuela: Institute for Production and Research of Tropical Agriculture (IPIAT), 1993-1996
	Volunteers in Overseas Assistance (VOCA) Note: See also Regional Environmental Center (REC) project, Hungary, 1994.
Box   14 Folder   26	Annual report, 1992
Box   14 Folder   27	Newsletters, 1995, 2002
Box   14 Folder   28-29	World Bank, 1992-1996
	World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Great Lakes Agricultural Pollution Prevention Project Advisory Council
Box   14 Folder   30	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workshop, 1994 February
Box   14 Folder   31-32	General pesticide reform initiatives, 1993-1995
Box   14 Folder   33-34	Meeting materials, 1993-1996
Box   15 Folder   1	Miller, Michelle, 1993-1995
Box   15 Folder   2	National integrated pest management (IPM) forum, 1992 June
Box   15 Folder   3	Project reports to Joyce Foundation, 1993-1994
	Report: “Pesticide Reduction in the Great Lakes Basin: Barriers and Opportunities”
Box   15 Folder   4-5	Draft report review, 1993-1995
Box   15 Folder   6	Executive summary and draft, 1994-1996
	Writing
Box   30 Folder   28	Appropriate technology, 1978-1980s
Box   30 Folder   29-31	Correspondence with editors, 1972-1983 Note: Primarily Jerry Goldstein of Organic Gardening and Farming (OGF) magazine, Rodale Press.
Box   30 Folder   32	Goldstein, Jerry, JG Press, 1978-1982, 2002-2003
Box   30 Folder   33	Hylton, William, Rodale Press, 1975
Box   30 Folder   34	"Directory of Small Farms Technical Assistance in the United States" / prepared by Heather Tischbein Baker, Roger Blobaum, Daniel G. Caye, Virginia M. Caye, and J. Patrick Madden, final report to the U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981 March
Box   30 Folder   35	Global transition to organic, 1998, 2006, undated
	"The Loss of Agricultural Land" report, 1974 Note: See Farmland Loss under Subject Files.
Box   30 Folder   36	New Farm magazine, 1980, 1991, 2007-2008
	Organic farmers
	Audio interviews, 1970s
Audio   1723A/44	Akerlund, Del
Audio   1723A/45	Halstead, Vic
Audio   1723A/46	Juhl, Ray
Audio   1723A/47	Old Mill interview
Audio   1723A/48	Thompson, Dick, regarding China farm trip Note: "Organic Kansas farmers lost 11 cows."
Box   30 Folder   37	Collected articles, news clippings, 1971-1994, 2001, undated
Box   30 Folder   38	Thompson, Dick, articles about, 1975-1984
Box   30 Folder   39	Correspondence, 1972-1977, 2015 Note: See M2014-106 for issues of Organic Observer and 1975 Almanac published by Hy-Brid Sales Company.
Box   30 Folder   40-41	Interviews, 1975, undated
Box   30 Folder   42	Magazine articles by Blobaum, 1973-1978
Box   31 Folder   1	Magazine articles by Blobaum, 1973-1978 (continued)
Box   31 Folder   2	Midwest organic farmer lists, 1974-1976
Box   31 Folder   3	Photo cutlines, 1970s Note: See also photographs in PH 6898.
Box   31 Folder   4	Organic Gardening and Farming (OGF) editor reviews, 1976-1977
Box   31 Folder   5	Published articles, 1973-2009
	Series: Subject Files	⇧
Box   15 Folder   7	Accreditation, 1993-1995, 1998-2004, 2014
Box   15 Folder   8	AgriSystems report, 1996
Box   15 Folder   9	Certification, 1997-2014
Box   15 Folder   10	Chicken feed fiasco (Fieldale Farms), 2002-2005
Box   31 Folder   6	Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, 1978
	Conferences and workshops Note: Audio recordings may be subject to copyright.
Box   15 Folder   11	Agricultural Trade Show, 1979
	Ecological Farming Conference recordings
Audio   1723A/1-8	1999 January 20-23
Audio   1723A/49-58	2004
Audio   1723A/59-66	2011 [CDs]
Box   15 Folder   12	Farmlands Preservation Conference, 1979-1981 Note: Includes Blobaum article, “Farming on the Urban Fringe.”
Box   15 Folder   13	First Appalachian Land Festival, 1978
Box   15 Folder   14	Food and Farm Issues Consultation, Louisville, Kentucky, 1976-1978
Box   31 Folder   7	Gasohol conference, 1977 November
Box   31 Folder   8-9	Genetically modified organisms (GMO) meeting, 2011
Box   15 Folder   15	International Academy of Metabology annual convention, 1977-1978
Box   15 Folder   16	International Family Farm Consultation, 1979
Box   15 Folder   17	Iowa Solar Operational Results Conference, 1980
Box   15 Folder   18	Land Use Conference, 1977
Box   15 Folder   19	Massachusetts land conference, 1976
Box   15 Folder   20	Media Consultations on Hunger project, 1977
Audio   1723A/67	Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (MFAI) panel recording: Labeling to Communicate Values, 1998 November Note: Roger Blobaum, E.G. Nadeau, Alicia Leinberger.
Box   15 Folder   21	Midwestern Conference on Food and Social Policy, 1976
Box   15 Folder   22	Miscellaneous, 1980, 1991, 1994, 1997, undated
Box   15 Folder   23	Nebraska Community Improvement Program (NCIP) Recognition Day, 1977
	Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) recordings, 1998 Winter
Audio   1723A/68	Federal Rules for National Organic Standards Note: Roger Blobaum, Joan Gussow, Emily Brown Rosen.
Audio   1723A/69	Organic at the Crossroads, Joan Gussow
Box   15 Folder   24	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Workshop on Organic Agriculture, 2002 September
Box   15 Folder   25	Ozark Institute, 1978, 1980
Box   15 Folder   26	Rural Awareness Day, 1978
Box   15 Folder   27	Rural Energy Management, 1980
Box   15 Folder   28	Rural Youth Institute, 1977-1978
	Seeds and Breeds Conference
Box   31 Folder   10	Ames, Iowa, 2005
Box   31 Folder   11	National Summit, 2008
Box   15 Folder   29	Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) annual meeting, 1977-1980 Note: Includes Blobaum paper, “Alternatives to Energy-Intensive Agriculture.”
Box   15 Folder   30	Toward Tomorrow Fair, 1977
Box   15 Folder   31	Trinity Synod Hunger Task Force, 1977
	Virginia Conference on Sustainable Agriculture recordings, 1990
Audio   1723A/70-71	Profitable Markets for Ecologically-Grown Food, 1990 March Note: "Wolf, Blobaum, Jones, Ford."
Audio   1723A/72	Report from the Hill: A Farmer's Perspective …
Box   31 Folder   12	Wilmington College, 1981-1982
	Wisconsin Grazing Conference, 2003
Audio   1723A/9	Presentation by John Ikerd: Successful Farming Is Mainly about Thinking, 2003
Box   15 Folder   32	Workshop on Social Justice, St. John's Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1977
Box   15 Folder   33	World Food Conference, 1976
Box   15 Folder   34	Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (CSARE), 1999-2002
	Corporate farming
Box   31 Folder   13-14	General, 1969-1977, 1998
Box   31 Folder   15-16	Agribusiness accountability, 1971-1974
Box   35 Folder   13	Center for Rural Affairs (CRA) opposition, 1973-1975, 1995
Box   31 Folder   17	Coalition for Land Reform, 1972-1977
Box   35 Folder   14	Foreign ownership of land, 1974-1977
Box   35 Folder   15	National Farmers Organization (NFO) opposition, 1971-1972
Box   31 Folder   18	Nelson, [Gaylord], corporate farm hearings, 1969-1975
Box   31 Folder   19	Blobaum, Roger, testimony, 1969-1976
Box   36 Folder   1	News clippings, 1970-1977, 1999
Box   31 Folder   20	Rodefeld, Richard, 1970-1976
	State legislation
Box   36 Folder   2	California, 1977 March 18
Box   36 Folder   3	Iowa, 1972-1976
Box   36 Folder   4	Kansas, 1972-1976
Box   36 Folder   5-6	Minnesota, 1969-1976
Box   36 Folder   7	Missouri, 1973-1975
Box   36 Folder   8-11	Nebraska, 1969-1975
Box   36 Folder   12	North Dakota, 1965-1975, 2001
Box   36 Folder   13	South Dakota, 1968-1973
Box   36 Folder   14	Texas, 1955-1970
Box   36 Folder   15	Washington, 1971, 1975
Box   36 Folder   16	Wisconsin, 1969-1976
Box   15 Folder   35	Country Hen dispute, 2003, 2005
Box   15 Folder   36	Emerging issues, 1975, 1993, 2001-2003
Box   31 Folder   21	Environmentalists for Full Employment, 1976-1977
Box   15 Folder   37	Faith-based organizations and organic and sustainable agriculture, 1974, 1996-1998, 2012-2013
Box   15 Folder   37	General, 1992-1998, undated
Box   31 Folder   22	Articles, news clippings, 1954-1998
Box   31 Folder   23-24	Conferences, 1974-1976, 1981-2014
Box   31 Folder   25	Correspondence, 1973-2014
Box   31 Folder   26	National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC), 1968-2012
Box   31 Folder   27	Presentations, 1973-1999
Box   31 Folder   28	Family Farm Development Act, 1977-1978
	Farmland loss
Box   31 Folder   29-32	Background papers, articles, 1971-1979, 1991
Box   31 Folder   33	Blobaum, Roger, report, 1974-1975, 1979
Box   31 Folder   34	Center for Economic Alternatives (CEA), 1977-1978
Box   31 Folder   35	Conference presentations, 1976-1979
Box   31 Folder   36	Correspondence, 1975-1996
Box   31 Folder   37	Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), 1974-1981
Box   31 Folder   38	Prime farmland loss, 1976-1982
	States
Box   31 Folder   39	Maine, 1978-1979
Box   31 Folder   40	Minnesota, 1976-1978
Box   31 Folder   41-42	New Jersey, 1971-1976
Box   32 Folder   1	Other states, 1973-1977 Note: Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Box   32 Folder   2	Pennsylvania, 1973-1976
Box   32 Folder   3	Vermont, 1973-1978
Box   32 Folder   4	Tufts conference, 1986
Box   32 Folder   5-6	Farm Verified Organic (FVO), 1988-2001 Note: Organic Standards, 3rd edition, 1998; Policy Handbook, 9th edition, 1998.
Box   32 Folder   7	Food Action Center, 1976 September
Box   15 Folder   38	Foreign standards, 1992-1994, 1998, 2000
Box   32 Folder   8	Friends of Appropriate Technology, 1978
Box   15 Folder   39	Government purchases of organic food, 1993, 2008
	Green labels
Box   15 Folder   40	Consumer's Choice Council (CCC), 1998, 2001
Box   15 Folder   41	Consumers Union, 2003-2004
Box   15 Folder   42	Eco-OK, 1995-1996
Box   15 Folder   43	Food Alliance, 1996, 1998, 2001
Box   15 Folder   44	General, 1996-2005
Box   15 Folder   45-46	Greener Fields, 1999-2002
Box   15 Folder   47	Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), 1995-1997, 2000
Box   15 Folder   48	Integrated Pest Management (IPM), 1997
Box   15 Folder   49	Latin America, 1993
Box   15 Folder   50	Leonardo Academy, 2008-2009
Box   15 Folder   51	Midwest Food Alliance, 2001
Box   15 Folder   52	Midwest Organic Alliance, 1995-1999
Box   15 Folder   53	Mothers and Others, 1996-1999
Box   15 Folder   54	National Agricultural Library (NAL) eco-labels search, 1996
Box   15 Folder   55	Organic Alliance, 1999-2001
Box   15 Folder   56	Board of Directors meeting materials, 2000-2001
Box   15 Folder   57	Organic cotton, 1993?
Box   15 Folder   58	Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF), 1997-1998, 2001, 2009
Box   15 Folder   59	Scientific Certification Systems (SCS)/American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 2008
Box   15 Folder   60	Tufts conference, 2002
Box   15 Folder   61	Whole Foods, 1999, 2001
	Harvey, Arthur case
Box   15 Folder   62	Harvey statements, 2001-2005
	Lawsuit
Box   16 Folder   1	Appeal, 2004-2005
Box   16 Folder   2	Case documents, 2002-2005
Box   32 Folder   9	Follow-up and rulemaking, 2005
Box   16 Folder   3	Follow-up and rulemaking, 2005-2006
Box   16 Folder   4-5	Proposed Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) amendments, 2005
Box   16 Folder   6	Similar cases, 2004, 2006
	In Business, 1989, 1997
Box   16 Folder   7	Independent Accreditation Steering Committee (IASC), 1998
Box   16 Folder   8	Independent Organic Inspectors Association (IOIA), 1994-2000
Box   32 Folder   11	International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (IASA), 1990
Box   16 Folder   9	Livestock standards, 1989-1998, 2003
Box   16 Folder   10	Certification standards for organic livestock production synopses, 1993-1994
Box   16 Folder   11	Coleman Natural Meats, 1991-1993
Box   16 Folder   12	Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), 1990-1997
Box   16 Folder   13	National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) Livestock Committee, 1993, 1998-2001
Box   16 Folder   14	Organic dairy, 1989, 1995-1995, 1999, 2005
Box   16 Folder   15	Organic Growers and Buyers Association (OGBA), 1991
Box   16 Folder   16	Organic Trade Association (OTA) Livestock Committee, 1991-1993, 1997-1998
Box   16 Folder   17	Poultry and egg production, 1992-1998
Box   16 Folder   18	Survey, 1992
	Mailing lists and conference participant lists, 1973-2013, undated
Box   16 Folder   19	Animal agriculture
Box   16 Folder   20	Appropriate technology and sustainable development
Box   16 Folder   21	Composting and waste recycling
Box   16 Folder   22	Food policy
Box   16 Folder   23-27	Sustainable agriculture
Box   16 Folder   28	Ecological Farming Conference
Box   32 Folder   12	Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), 1978, 2009
Box   32 Folder   13	National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) projects, 1978-1980
Box   16 Folder   29	National Energy Plan II (NEP II) public meetings, 1978-1979
Box   16 Folder   30-32	National Organic Action Plan, 2001-2010
	National Organic Program (NOP) Note: See also Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA).
Box   16 Folder   33	Four directives issue, 2004
Box   16 Folder   34	General, 2000, 2002, 2012
	National Organic Standards Board (NOSB)
Box   32 Folder   14	Appointments, 1991-2016, undated
Box   32 Folder   15	Board policy manual, 2002
Box   16 Folder   35	Funding issue, 1991-1993
Box   16 Folder   36	Meeting materials, 1991-1994, 1998-2001, 2003
Box   16 Folder   37	Public comments, 1994, 1998, 2001
	Rules process
Box   16 Folder   38-39	Board and committee files, 1992-1995
Box   17 Folder   1	Board and committee files, 1992-1995 (continued)
Box   17 Folder   2-4	Public input scheme, 1992-1995
Box   17 Folder   5	Suggested members, 1991, 1995-1998, 2001, 2004
	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Box   17 Folder   6	Correspondence, 1978
Box   17 Folder   7	Reviews, undated
Box   17 Folder   8	Office administrator's working notes, circa 1970s
Box   17 Folder   9	Organic Center, 2006-2015, undated
Box   17 Folder   10	Organic Certifiers Caucus (OCC), 1992-1995
Box   17 Folder   11	Organic Food Alliance (OFA), 1990
Box   17 Folder   12	Organic Food Sellers Trade Association (OFSTA) Planning Committee, 1989-1990
Box   17 Folder   13	Organic Valley, 2003-2008
	Organic Farmers Association Council (OFAC) Note: See also Organic Farmers Association Council (OFAC) in Working Files series.
Box   17 Folder   14	Founding event, Leavenworth, Kansas, 1989
Box   17 Folder   15	Steering Committee, 1989-1990
	Organic firms Note: Early grower and input operations.
	Inputs
Box   32 Folder   16	Humus Organic Products (HOP), 1975-1976
Box   32 Folder   17	Hy-Brid Sales Company, 1970, 1974, undated Note: See also M2014-106 for Hy-Brid Publications: 1975 Almanac, Farmer Facts, and Organic Observer.
Box   32 Folder   18	Articles, news clippings, 1971-1974, undated
Box   32 Folder   19	Product information, 1970s
Box   32 Folder   20	Necessary Catalogue, 1988-1991
Box   32 Folder   21-22	Other inputs, products, 1975-2007, undated
	Marketing Note: Includes Living Farms and New Life Foods producer standards.
Box   32 Folder   23-24	Living Farms, 1975-1977, undated
Box   32 Folder   25	New Life Foods, 1977-1978, undated
Box   32 Folder   26	Walnut Acres, miscellaneous, 1990, undated
Box   32 Folder   27	Organic Growers and Buyers Association (OGBA), 1974-1978
Box   32 Folder   28-29	Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI), 1997-1998, 2001-2012
	Organic research
Box   32 Folder   30-31	International, 1990-2011
Box   32 Folder   32	Midwest Organic Research Symposium (2008), 2007-2009
Box   32 Folder   33	Miscellaneous, 1974-2013, undated
Box   32 Folder   34	National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board Symposium, 1998, 2006-2008
Box   32 Folder   35	Organic Valley research grants, 2007-2010
Box   32 Folder   36	Thompson on-farm research, 1971-1995
Box   17 Folder   16	Ozark Small Farm Viability Project (OSFVP), 1991-1997, 2001
Box   17 Folder   17	Policy Studies Organization, 1978
Box   17 Folder   18	Population/Food Fund, 1977-1978
Box   17 Folder   19	Potomac Partners, 1989
	Presentations
Box   32 Folder   37	Accreditation, 1998, 2003, undated
Box   32 Folder   38-39	Agriculture, food, 1973-2001
Box   17 Folder   20	Chinese agriculture, draft press release, 1975, 1977
Box   32 Folder   40	Conferences, international, 1991-2001, undated
Box   32 Folder   41	Congressional testimony, 1971-1990
Box   33 Folder   1	Corporate farms, 1967, 1975
Box   33 Folder   2	Energy use, 1976-1994
Box   33 Folder   3	Federal agency input, 1978, 1993
Box   33 Folder   4	Food safety, 1989-1992, 2008
Box   33 Folder   5-6	Organic food and farming, 1989-2015, undated
Electronic Folder	Video recording: “Organic History: Origins and Evolution of the Organic Farming Movement,” Roger Blobaum, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014 May 8
Box   33 Folder   7	Resource conservation, 1970-1991
Box   33 Folder   8	Rural America, 1978, 1980, undated
Box   33 Folder   9	Urban fringe, 1982, 1986, undated
Box   17 Folder   21	Prospective book buyers, 1975-1978 Note: Regarding Blobaum loss of agricultural land paper.
Box   17 Folder   21	Publications ordered, 1977-1980
Box   33 Folder   10	Rodale Institute, 1972-2008
Box   33 Folder   11	Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA), 1995, 2002, 2007
Box   17 Folder   22	Rural women's issues, 1977
	State initiatives
Box   33 Folder   12	General, 1989-2013 Note: Includes reports by Center for Science in the Public Interest (1989) and the Ceres Trust (2013).
Box   33 Folder   13	Colorado, 1992, 2006
Box   33 Folder   14	Illinois, 2009-2012
Box   33 Folder   15	Indiana, 2007-2012
Box   33 Folder   16	Iowa, 2001-2011, undated
Box   33 Folder   17	Kansas, 1985-1986, 2009
Box   34 Folder   1	Michigan, 2009-2012
Box   34 Folder   2-3	Minnesota, 1976-2011, undated
Box   34 Folder   4	Missouri, 1977, 1992, 2009-2011
Box   34 Folder   5	Nebraska, 1994, 2002-2012
Box   34 Folder   6	North Dakota, 2009
Box   34 Folder   7	Ohio, 2009-2011
Box   34 Folder   8	Wisconsin, 1988-2010, undated
	State organic laws
Box   18 Folder   1	“Comparative analysis of state organic production laws” / by Suzanne Vaupel and Renée Robin: flyer for publication in progress, 1993
Box   18 Folder   2	USDA report: “State Legislation Pertaining to the Labeling and Marketing of Organics” / by Julie Anton, 1992 Winter
Box   18 Folder   3	State organic programs, 1998, 2001-2003, 2009
Box   18 Folder   4	Terminators, irradiation, 1998
Box   18 Folder   5	United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association (UFFVA) organic input, 1989
	United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Box   18 Folder   6	Four directives issue, 2004
Box   18 Folder   7	Organic issue papers, 1998-2000
Box   18 Folder   8	Speeches (not by Blobaum), 1977
Box   18 Folder   9	Users Advisory Board, 1980
PH 6898	Series: Visual Materials	⇧
	Photographs
Box   1 Folder   5	Congressional campaigns, 1970, 1984
Oversize Folder	Headshot, 1984?
	Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) conference, 1990 March 23 Scope and Content Note: Speakers and attendees at the CSPI conference, Washington, D.C.
Box   1 Folder   1	Prints
Box   1 Folder   1	Contact sheets
Box   1 Folder   2	Negatives
Box   1 Folder   7	Conlee, John, FarmAid concert performer, 1985 Physical Description: 2 black and white 8x10-inch prints.
Box   1 Folder   7	Cornucopia Institute exposé, 2014
	Humphrey, Hubert H. Note: See also HHH photos in Congressional campaign photos.
Box   1 Folder   3	1964-1968
Box   1 Folder   4	1968 Vice President campaigns
Box   1 Folder   7	Japan, consulting, 1990s Note: 19 prints
Box   1 Folder   7	NFO/NFU National Crisis Action Rally (February 27, 1985) Physical Description: Prints (9), contact sheets (11)
Box   1 Folder   6	Photos, cutlines for magazine articles, 1973, 1975
Box   1 Folder   1	Portrait of George F. McRobie, commentator on appropriate technology who was later active in International Organic Accreditation Services (IOAS), 1970s