Co-developed with Wolf & Associates and the Accredited Certifiers Association, the USDA-posted Common OSP is already accepted by 11 certifiers. Producers using the Quick Organics platform report cutting certification work from days to hours.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Program (NOP) has published the first version of the Common Organic System Plan (Common OSP), a set of standardized templates that organic operations can use to apply for and maintain certification. Quick Organics was one of three organizations that led development of the plan, working alongside Wolf & Associates and the Accredited Certifiers Association (ACA). The templates, dated May 26, 2026, are now free to download on the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) website.

An Organic System Plan, or OSP, is the document at the center of organic certification. Every farm or business certified under the USDA organic regulations (7 CFR Part 205) must develop one describing how it complies with the rules — how crops are grown, animals are raised, products are handled, and records are kept — and submit it to an accredited certifier for annual review. Until now, there has been no common form; certifiers used their own templates in varying formats and of varying age, creating friction across the system. The Common OSP establishes a single, shared baseline for documenting and assessing compliance.

An electronic platform that speeds up certification

Quick Organics delivers the Common OSP as a fully electronic platform — and that is where certification gets faster. Operations enter their information once, then carry it forward automatically across every annual renewal instead of starting over each year. Records and activities are logged as the season unfolds, so the plan stays current and inspection-ready rather than being assembled in a last-minute scramble. When it is time to certify, the operation generates a complete, review-ready submission in the structure adopting certifiers already expect.

The result is dramatically less time spent on paperwork. By removing the repetitive re-entry that slows traditional certification, the platform has helped some operations turn a renewal that once took four days of work into about four hours — freeing producers to focus on running their farms instead of rebuilding their files.

Because the platform is built directly on the Common OSP, its structure matches what adopting certifiers expect. Operations that sign up between June 1 and July 31, 2026 receive a free 12-month trial. After the trial, annual pricing starts at $150 and scales with an operation’s anticipated organic revenue. The producers themselves subscribe to the platform, while certifiers adopt and accept the Common OSP at no cost.

A years-long, privately driven effort

The release caps a multi-year project that, unusually for the NOP, originated outside the agency. After years without a workable solution, the effort gained momentum when Quick Organics founder Frankie Grundler studied the full certification system, built a base of farmers using the software, and found that a large share of content across existing OSPs was genuinely common — work no one had done before. The NOP encouraged collaboration with the ACA and other certifiers, and in October 2024 issued an open call to finish the work. Quick Organics, Wolf & Associates, and the ACA took it on.

The work drew on structured feedback from certifiers across the ACA network, coordinated by Connie Karr, whom the NOP credited as a key leader. Reviewers also included the Organic Farmers Association, the National Organic Coalition, the Western Organic Dairy Producers Alliance, and the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance. The project was not funded by the USDA and did not go through the agency’s usual process; it was carried by private organizations that contributed time, expertise, and labor at their own cost.

Built from family-farm experience

Grundler’s push for the Common OSP grew from the family farm, where he saw firsthand how much time producers lose re-entering the same certification paperwork year after year. That frustration shaped Quick Organics from the start: a tool designed around the realities of running an operation rather than the convenience of the form. The result is a platform that carries a producer’s information forward, captures records as the season unfolds, and turns an annual scramble into a year-round, inspection-ready plan.

“I saw it at our farm, so I know the frustration of filling out the same organic paperwork over and over,” said Frankie Grundler, founder of Quick Organics. “We built this to give that time back to producers — enter your information once, keep it current through the year, and let the plan be ready when the inspector is. Making life easier for the people doing the real work has been the whole point.”

Early adoption and what comes next

Eleven certifiers are currently willing to accept the Common OSP, and adopting certifiers collectively represent more than 12,000 certified operations — roughly 40 percent of U.S. operations. The NOP has said it will work with the ACA this summer on a governance strategy to keep the templates current, and signaled a next phase: a common inspection form to accompany the plan, with development expected in the summer and fall.

The NOP has emphasized that it has no connection to any software company in this effort, does not endorse any software, provides no funding, and has no access to any company’s data. The Common OSP templates are publicly available on the AMS website in Word and Excel formats, free for any operation or certifier to use.

About Quick Organics

Quick Organics is an electronic organic-certification platform built on the Common OSP, serving farmers, handlers, and certifiers. It was one of three organizations — with Wolf & Associates and the Accredited Certifiers Association — that led development of the Common OSP. Operations that sign up by July 31, 2026 start with a free 12-month trial.

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