Clif Bar & Company and Organic Valley today named the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) as the recipient of the nation’s first endowed chair focused on plant breeding for organic crops.
Driscoll Strawberry Associates has made a commitment to supply all of its organic berry growers with organic nursery plants. Watsonville, Calif.-based Driscoll’s has had an organic nursery program certified by Santa Cruz-based California Certified Organic Farmers for the past seven years, according to a news release.
Fruit and vegetable growers will have as long as six years to comply with a landmark FDA rule that, for the first time, sets food safety standards for produce farms. The Produce Safety Rule was issued at the same time as a rule that requires importers to verify that imported food meets U.S.
Hauling feed, herding pigs, long hours. Farming is hard. And 25-year-old Leanna Mulvihill loves it. Young farmers like Mulvihill are bright green shoots in a field full of old growth. Farmers, on average, are getting older, and millennials eager to get their fingernails dirty on sustainable farms are welcome.
Laura Batcha, CEO/ Executive Director of OTA, along with Tom Vilsack, Dan Glickman, Bob Stallman, Ricardo Salvador, Tom Colicchio, Michael Jacobson, and Hugh Grant, respond to the question: "Leaving aside GMOs for the moment, what’s the problem with our food? How, in other words, should we go about fixing our food system, from the ground up?"
The Organic Produce Summit will feature a series of timely educational sessions to be presented at its inaugural trade show designed for organic fresh produce producers and handlers.
OTA Member Benny McLean is highlighted in this Orlando Business Journal for his family company's commitment to organic, and for combining traditional and innovative farming methods.
This USDA Blog post by Anne L. Alonzo, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator, celebrates the fact that for years, the organic industry has experienced enormous growth, defying expectations and creating exciting opportunities for producers and entrepreneurs around the world.
David Lively, vice president of sales and marketing at the Organically Grown Co., helped launch the distribution company to bring more order to the organic market.
About 50 protested Monday at a Monday meeting in Stowe of the National Organics Standards Board. The protesters urged the board to recommend that hydroponic crops not carry the label.