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Posted on Wednesday August 9, 2017

Are you ready for Natural Products Expo East? The Organic Trade Association will hold a special one-hour webinar entitled “What you need to succeed in organic: Regulatory 101” this Thursday, August 10, at 2 p.m. Eastern. Open to all organic stakeholders, the free webinar will focus on key issues for the best trade show experience. […]

Posted on Wednesday August 9, 2017

Don’t miss the All Things Organic Conference at Natural Products Expo East next month. The conference takes place Thursday, September 14 and Friday September 15 at the Baltimore Convention Center. Speakers will address a range of topics from protecting supply chain integrity to ideas around increasing the accessibility of organic products and so much more. […]

Posted on Wednesday August 9, 2017

The public is welcome to attend Organic Valley’s grand opening of its newly renovated organic butter plant in McMinnville, OR, this Saturday, August 12, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This free event includes a creamery tour to learn how organic butter is made, a farm tour of a nearby organic dairy, and a free organic […]

Posted on Wednesday August 2, 2017

The House Agriculture Committee held a Farm Bill listening session on Monday in San Angelo, Texas, and has scheduled two more this week. Another “Conversations in the Field” session will take place this Thursday at Farmfest in Morgan, Minnesota, and again on Saturday in Modesto, California. At the San Angelo session, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture […]

Posted on Wednesday August 2, 2017

The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) will meet via web conference on August 14 from 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern to discuss hydroponics in organic food production. You can register for the online conference, or download a transcript approximately two weeks after the event. NOSB will not be voting on a recommendation at this time, […]