The organic market in the UK is now worth £2.79 billion, having just experienced its highest year-on-year growth rate since 2005.
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The organic market in the UK is now worth £2.79 billion, having just experienced its highest year-on-year growth rate since 2005.
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The San Francisco-based company will use the funding to fuel its expansion into Southern California by this fall — a move that will triple the size of its current market.
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The prospect that many fruits and vegetables will soon be gene-edited is a terrifying one.
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Internal testing done by Gerber, Beech-Nut, Nurture, Inc. (Happy Baby) and Hain Celestial (Earth’s Best) showed levels of heavy metals far above limits set for bottled water by the FDA and the EPA, congressional investigators found. Class action lawsuits have since been filed.
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According to new research from IRI, smaller manufacturers did especially well in the alcohol, frozen food and center-store food categories.
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AquaBounty says its first bioengineered salmon will be harvested in March, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy to buy.
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The U.S. Organic Grain Initiative is designed to transition 50,000 acres of corn and soy to organic, which help fill a growing gap in domestic organic animal feed.
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Even as farm workers alleged in lawsuits that chlorpyrifos had made them sick, Trump’s EPA refused to ban it.
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Small farmers in India face perilous changes in the marketplace, which will favor large-scale farming and more corporate control — and the environmental consequences that come along with that.
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While the Organic Trade Association is putting its faith in USDA Secretary nominee Tom Vilsack, the Center for Food Safety has outlined 7 reasons why he should not be confirmed.
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From the biggest organic farmer cooperative in the United States to an independent organic farmer in southeast Minnesota, the pandemic brought big business.
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Co-founded by Torie Burke and Howard Slatkin in 2012, Torie & Howard has been purchased by American Licorice.
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Now, a national full-service grocer, Imperfect Foods just closed a $95M Series D financing from Insight Partners and Northwest Venture Partners.
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The top three categories with the largest sales increases were packaged salads (15.4%), berries (strawberries, blueberries and raspberries) at 12.2%, and apples (11.1%).
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The Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit is based on the FDA failing to demand the required safety tests and that its approval was not based on “convincing evidence.”
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HIPPEAS, one of the fastest-growing companies in our industry, has closed a big financing with The Craftory Limited.
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In an ad featuring what appears to be Serena Williams, Sylvester Stallone, Lucy Liu, Megan Fox, Maluma and Usher, Michelob is again providing amazing exposure for organic.
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While some advocates say animal welfare certifications are helping to change the industry, a new report points to a lack of rigor among widely adopted labels.
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Financial pressures, long hours, labor shortages, harsh weather — these are all conditions that farmers and their advocates say are escalating stress and depression among Wisconsin’s dairy farmers.
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This is the latest instance of Trump political appointees overriding the agency’s scientists.
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While her track record on organic is unclear, Bronaugh would be the first woman of color to serve in the position, has extensive ag experience and is praised for addressing the mental health of farmers and food access issues within historically marginalized communities.
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The legal case against allowing hydroponics in organic — one of the real injustices in our industry — starts tomorrow with the public oral argument.
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The economic fallout of the pandemic will fuel private label innovation and force brands to rethink packaging, according to one industry expert.
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Bravo to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for signing a bill to ban the use of the cancer-causing weedkiller on all state property.
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