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n 1994, PrimusLabs began its foray into auditing by developing G.A.P. manuals, and in 1996, the company became an early force in the produce industry for field level food safety plans. It was the first American company to offer auditing for farms and harvest crews and became an early and strong advocate for complete programs for farms and ranches. Over the next few years, PrimusLabs began offering food industry plans, and GMP audits and consultation for processing plants, cooling and cold storage facilities, packing sheds, terminal market and distribution centers. These audits were known as PrimusLabs Standard audits.

The firm provided extensive expertise in the form of “guides” used throughout the industry and by governmental food safety agencies. Thus, Primus Laboratories advanced the concept of preventing contamination at the earliest point in the production chain, rather than limiting the focus to downstream packing or processing operations, a concept not acknowledged by the FDA until 2011 with the passage of FSMA.

Marrone Bio Innovations makes pesticide a little less poisonous. The company's biopesticides are made from eco-friendly ingredients such as plant extracts, bacterium, or fungus. Marrone Bio Innovations has three products on the market and three in development awaiting EPA approval. Its pesticide Grandevo contains bacteria that repels plant-eating insects and kills them if ingested. The company's plant extract-based fungicide Regalia is also used as a seed treatment for corn, cotton, and soybeans, and Zequanox kills mussels found in water pipes. Its products are primarily sold to vegetable growers as alternatives to conventional agricultural chemicals. Marrone Bio Innovations went public in 2013.

Pro-Cert was founded by Wallace J. Hamm over a quarter-century ago. Now his son Byron works alongside him, running the day-to-day operations together at Pro-Cert as Byron’s daughter learns to follow in her father’s – and grandfather’s – footsteps.

Pro-Cert’s certification program is recognized globally providing international access to the products and brands we certify.

NOP (USA)
COR (Canada) andBIO (Quebec)
JAS (Japan)
Bio-Suisse
KOC (Korea)
Our program is accredited to by IOAS – a globally recognized accreditor and member of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF).

Established in 1943, Producers Rice Mill Inc. is a farmer-owned cooperative that has been a significant supplier in the rice industry for over 75 years. With established customers worldwide, Producers Rice Mill Inc. focuses on the benefits of rice and rice ingredients in multiple market segments including food service, retail, and industrial. Producers Rice Mill’s full ownership of Producers Rice Ingredients has enabled our teams to leverage our extensive knowledge and experience in the rice industry to expand our reach across developing markets.

PRI manufactures a diverse offering of rice products that are utilized by multiple segments of the food industry. Through a combined effort working closely with our customers on innovation and new product development, we seek to maximize the natural and beneficial qualities of rice as an ingredient. With a focus on the future, we continually look for options to improve our current product offering in support of our customers’ demands.

Alliance of natural products retailers, manufacturers, brokers, distributors, consultants, organizations and individuals addressing such issues as food safety, ethical business practice, sustainable agriculture and environmental integrity, communications, networking and advocacy.

At Next Gen Pet Products we have built our business by searching the world for truly unique pet products. Many of the products from Next Gen have been in the international market for a number of years, and now Next Gen brings them to you in North America. Next Gen partners with many of the largest pet product manufacturers and distributors around the world to develop innovative pet products based on well established and market proven ingredients and formulas.

Reliable Products Inc./PureFarms Organic is a family-owned and operated company in operation since 1973. Our CEO and founder, Ashish Lakhani, born and raised in city of Rajkot, in the state of Gujarat in India, was raised in family business where he learned to work with a farmer/processor and organic farmer group. For three generations the Lakhani family has been a part of organic farming and trade and currently maintains their own farm back home in India. In 1997 Ashish came to the U.S and in 2003 with the knowledge and expertise of his father Vipin Lakhani and brother Darshan Lakhani, founded Reliable Products, Inc. as a quality wholesale distributor of Non-GMO and certified organic raw food ingredients. His family has converted and funded organic farming methods from conventional farming methods which has brought a richness of expertise and quality to the Reliable Products and PureFarms Organic brand.

Reliable Products Inc./PureFarms Organic is a leading food ingredient processor and provider of raw seeds, grains, nuts and gluten-free ingredients. We have capabilities to create custom seed & spice blends used for topping mixes with custom packaging. Reliable Products Inc./PureFarms Organic is a supply chain management solution provider to major food manufacturers, distributors, food service companies, co-packers and contract manufacturers in the U.S. and Canada. We have strategically-located food grade, organic-certified distribution facilities across the U.S. for our customers’ convenience.

Our facility uses the most advanced technologies available in the world as far as seed processing is concerned. Our products are examined and monitored right from the farm level, through each stage of processing, and through product delivery to our customers. Reliable Products/PureFarms Organic is involved in every step of the supply chain process. We follow and maintain,GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices), GAP (Good Agricultural Practices), US Food Safety Standard. Our facilities are GFSI SQF or BRC certified. We implement and adhere to the highest quality food safety standards of ABA, AIB, ASTA and FDA-FSMA. We are also a USDA/Custom bonded and FDA Registered Food Facility and are working towards SQF Level 2 certification

Pure Ground Ingredients was founded by our vision of a world where growers, manufacturers, and consumers all came together in the name of better ingredients, sustainable practices, and a happier, healthier planet. After a family health scare, our founder Kevin Lindseth and his family studied and began practicing Chinese Medicine. As a way to share their story of healing through herbs, the family founded an organic tea business. Kevin traveled the globe and developed relationships with growers. This paved a lifelong appreciation for the integrity of organic ingredients. As the market for organics began to grow, Kevin began importing and processing ingredients for other manufacturers.

PURIS cultivates a spectrum of pure, plant-based foods and ingredients from USA organic non-GMO sources. Our end-to-end USA organic non-GMO pea protein manufacturing system ensures a wholesome sustainable food system from seed to solution.

Purity Organics produces, processes and markets certified organic almonds.

After three decades of producing almonds, we decided to enter the organic food market.

Our first offering is an organic almond. Not just any "organic" almond. Our almonds are 100 percent Certified Organic.

We maintain the integrity of the Certified Organic label by controlling the entire growth, harvesting and processing phases.

We farm the land. We water the trees. We monitor their growth and quality. We harvest the tree nuts. We process them in our processing facility. We oversee the packaging and distribution.

We are diligent in all aspects of the process, from planting to harvest to packaging.

When you choose an organic food partner, choose one committed to their products. Choose one who serves them to their own family. Choose Purity Organics.

QAI, global leader in organic certification services, verifies that growers, processors and handlers of organic products worldwide meet all applicable standards and regulations. Offering international accessibility and streamlined, professional client services.

Organic certification services.

Wholesaler-distributor of organic, natural and specialty products serving grocery and natural food retailers, restaurants, foodservice including schools, colleges and universities, national parks, guest ranches, and sporting lodges in the Northern Rockies region.

Inspired by farmers, built for all producers. Tools to streamline production and simplify your organic certification paperwork.

Quick Organics was born in early 2020 with a diverse team ranging in expertise- software design, client success managers and a group of subject matter experts.

In 2013, motivated by a boyhood dream, our founder Greg Schreiner purchased a set of certified organic farms located in Wellington, Colorado. The properties had been organic for over 30 years. Intending to keep the farms legacy organic, Greg soon discovered the daunting process of organic certification and paperwork. Overwhelmed and flooded with questions, Greg and his team went to work organizing records and building spreadsheets to track data. He hired an office administrator whose sole job was to create a system to track all of the required data and keep all farm records.

Throughout the years, Greg often wondered how he could help other organic operations with this intimidating year-round process. In late 2019, he started to envision building a cloud-based software program to be used by other producers to maintain the organic integrity of their operations.

Processes were established to record field level data, input documentation and their use, harvest and planting records, fertility plan data, pest and weed control methods. Over the years, the system grew into a complex network of multiple spreadsheets, files and documents and their records became impeccable. The annual renewals and on-site inspections weren’t just manageable, the trust and reliance on the data made this process quick and painless.

The program would also help in establishing processes that would assist them in maintaining sufficient documentation so that their certification process would be easier.

Our program will be the answer to all your frustrations. Enjoy the process, we look forward to working with you!

Wild River is a grower/shipper of kiwifruit, stone fruit, and citrus.

The farm has been downsized from 4,000 acres to 4 acres. It also includes a vastly reduced research project and small orchard.

The Research Center strives to explore cutting-edge ideas on the high plains of Montana. It is located on the Quinn Organic Farm in Big Sandy, Montana, within the famed Golden Triangle. The experiments are conducted on small acreage in an effort to determine how a farm family can make a comfortable living on fewer acres. Current experiments include oilseeds for fuel and lubricants, storage and fresh vegetables, crop rotations, green manures, and weed management.

The Quinn Institute stands as a testament to the enduring power of organic and regenerative agriculture. Established by Bob Quinn, a visionary 4th generation farmer, author, renowned scientist, and passionate advocate for sustainable farming, our institute is the culmination of a lifetime spent in the pursuit of harmonizing agriculture with nature.

We believe that food is not just a means of sustenance but a path to healing both people and the planet. At The Quinn Institute, we embody Bob's philosophy that "food is medicine," and we work tirelessly to produce nutrient-dense food through methods that honor the earth and its inhabitants.

The mission of The Quinn Institute is ambitious yet simple: to scale up the number of successful regenerative organic producers and demonstrate that agriculture can be both profitable and a force for good. Through research, education, and practical demonstrations, we aim to lead by example, showing that the health of our communities and the planet is intertwined with the health of our farms.

The campus covers approximately 700 acres of donated land, previously part of the Quinn Farm & Ranch that has been in a regenerative organic agricultural system and certified organic for over 25 years. It is 12 miles Southeast of Big Sandy in North Central Montana between the Bear’s Paw Mountains and the Missouri River Breaks formally on the indigenous lands of the Blackfeet, Nakota, and Assiniboine Tribes. It is representative of the short grass prairie of the Northern Great Plains East of the Rocky Mountains encompassing large parts of eastern Montana, the western Dakotas, smaller distinct portions of Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, as well as Southern Saskatchewan and Southeast Alberta – together roughly the size of the entire state of California. The primary area represented and served by this research center covers parts of 6 states and 2 Canadian Provinces.

The campus will be divided into multiple fields to demonstrate the effect of rotations on cash crops, cover crops, unusual crops, as well as interrelationships of livestock with both native pasture and crop land. Rented acres from a bordering non-organic farm will allow experiments comparing organic and non-organic systems. Areas for small replicated plots will also be available.

Small gardens and orchards will provide opportunities to learn management and production skills. A teaching kitchen and small processing facilities will provide a place to teach participants how to take the food from the field or garden to the plate providing students with many learning opportunities for preparing and preserving their own food. Local health practitioners will help ensure the purpose of healthy food is complete by prescribing it to those suffering from all types of chronic and mental disease. Thus, prescriptions will be food from the farm rather than pills from the pharmacy. In this way we may have food as medicine rather than pills as food.

R|K Invest Law, PBC is a law firm organized as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. We serve as advocates on behalf of shareholders, as counsel for investment advisers, and provide securities law regulatory defense. We offer legal services that advance social and environmental justice and promote diversity and balance in corporate governance, and work to develop frameworks that promote responsible investing for positive impact.

We help companies navigate the securities laws as they develop, including the marketing of products using blockchain technology. We provide regulatory advice, SEC/FINRA compliance counseling and enforcement defense to investment funds, broker-dealers, family offices, investment advisers and other investment institutions and institutional investors. We also serve as advocates for clients seeking to develop regulators' understanding of technological advancements and their relationship to legal developments.

We assist growers, producers, importers and distributors with issues relating to organic production and certification, including those associated with wine, beer and spirits. We have worked with accredited certifying agents worldwide to obtain the documentation required for selling products labeled organic and biodynamic in the United States. We stand ready to defend the rights of growers who have been harmed by companies seeking to protect intellectual property rights, and will assist with challenges to contracts that harm producers who choose to transition to organic agriculture.

With 37 years of agriculture experience, Tim brings valuable insight to the family farm. Tim attended Kansas State University before returning as the 4th generation operator. While the number of acres has grown, Tim and wife Robyn, remain committed to the principles of his father and grandfathers; stewardship, sustainability, and progress. Robyn has a business degree from FHSU and manages Raile Farm's accounting. They have 2 grown children, Jessica and Michael; together with their families they have strong ties to the farm.

We create healthy, all natural supplements, made with organic ingredients, that are good for your body AND good for the earth. We are the only certified organic libido enhanser on the market.