The Organic Trade Association’s Annual Fund campaign is in its final stretch. We need to raise $165,000 in order to meet our goal. Help support the vital work the association is doing in the policy arena! Please join our unified voice and support OTA’s 2017 Annual Fund Campaign.
Since 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued special harmonized codes (HS codes) to trace imports and exports of a number of organic products. The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is currently working on another application to request additional HS codes for organic products, and is seeking input on which products toad to the […]
The Organic Center has been invited to give a presentation at the United Nation’s Forum on Sustainable Agricultural Development this July. The forum will focus on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in September 2015, and calls on the international community to “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and […]
A new study published in Applied Soil Ecology and summarized by The Organic Center has found large differences in soils and the soil microbial communities that they support. In a three-year study, researchers compared soil characteristics and the functional diversity of soil bacterial populations (the number of groups of species that are unique from each […]
Ambassador Darci Vetter, an international trade and agriculture consultant and a former Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, has written an opinion piece in Agri Pulse prompted by the recent discovery that corn and soybeans were imported from Turkey into the United States under the organic label, but clearly weren’t.
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