Farm Aid President Willie Nelson applauds the USDA’s new organic certification standards, but complains that organic farmers will have to pay for organic certification, something Farm Aid and other organic supporters think the government should pay for. Our friends at the Citizens Against Government Waste blast Farm Aid’s idea, noting, “It is preposterous for the organic industry, which lobbied for the creation of an organic certification program, to now propose that it should be compensated for the costs of that program.”
