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On September 30, our Organic Trade Association (OTA) employees trickled in from across the United States to the rolling hills of Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, for a staff retreat. It was a week filled with farm tours and team building activities and offered a chance for longtime coworkers to clock facetime with each other and new employees to meet the team in-person.

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is a longstanding advocate for increasing federal funding for organic transition to increase organic acreage and production and to strengthen the domestic supply chain.

On September 29, 2024, the United States District Court for the District of Oregon ruled against a pending legal challenge to organic “grower group” certification following a brief filed earlier this year by the Center for Food Safety along with the Organic Trade Association (OTA) and other organic stakeholders, including organic nonprofits, companies, certifiers and grocers, in support of USDA’s grower group certification.