Senator Michael Bennet drove a hard bargain last week in the Senate Agriculture Committee during mark-up of the 2012/2013 Farm Bill. Bennet introduced a key amendment that will allow US organic producers to create and participate in a cooperative marketing program for the first time. Other key commodities already participate in similar "research and marketing orders", but the organic industry was effectively barred from consideration due to technical barriers in existing law.  Bennet's amendment, which was accepted unanimously by the Committee, removes those legal barriers.   The organic industry has been working collectively to decide how to structure the arrangement, in which producers of organic commodities will contribute a small percentage of every sale to...