A fresh batch of federal funding is being made available to Georgia farmers who are in the process of transitioning to organic crop production and seeking USDA organic-certified status. The deadline to apply is June 15.

With increasing consumer demand for organically grown produce, University of Georgia researchers are studying ways to help Georgia farmers transition to growing organic vegetables on out of use farmland or pasture.

In 1920, African-American farmers owned 14 percent of all American farmland. Today, 45,000 black growers own just two percent of that land and the vast...