Oreo-owner Mondelez is taking a majority stake in Perfect Bar-parent Perfect Snacks, which is doing roughly $70M in sales.
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Oreo-owner Mondelez is taking a majority stake in Perfect Bar-parent Perfect Snacks, which is doing roughly $70M in sales.
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Thrive Market has temporarily halted sales of hemp-derived CBD products after its merchant processor demanded it cease selling them amid uncertainty over their legal status.
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It was just reported that the total number of USDA certified organic operations in 2018 was slightly above 43,000, up 4.4% from 2017.
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Maple Hill Creamery CEO Tim Joseph makes the case that multiple farming systems will co-exist in the future.
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In an announcement made yesterday, California-based organic juice bars Project Juice and Beaming have merged.
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According to a new survey of 2,000 Americans, 55% of the respondents feel that maintaining a healthy diet is unaffordable.
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For a country that understands the importance and growth of organic, Denmark believes that its supermarkets could be 30% organic by the end of the next decade. Amazing.
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The construction of pipelines has been known to impact the environment and surrounding communities, and now there is evidence that organic farms are particularly vulnerable.
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Given their significance to the planet’s ecological health, insects are disappearing at an unprecedented rate, sure to be devastating for all.
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One company is betting that Andean Lupin, a nutritionally-dense legume, will be the next big superfood.
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Impossible Foods, which uses glyphosate-sprayed, GMO-soy in its Impossible Burgers, sees “regenerative grazers as one of the worst environmental options” — even though studies have completely disproven this.
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This is ominous. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the USDA, FDA and EPA to ease rules for approving genetically modified crops and other agricultural biotechnology.
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Neal Laferriere, an organic farmer at Blackberry Botanicals in West Virginia, wants to know what his organic certifier is hiding and not being fully transparent?
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FoodShot Global’s Victor Friedberg has created a unique collaborative capital investment platform that offers a “capital continuum” to support long-term transformations to the food system.
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A new ‘Ag of the Middle’ program helps small producers scale up so that they can compete in a food system designed to benefit larger farms.
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RE Botanicals has become the first USDA certified organic CBD brand to achieve Glyphosate Residue Free certification.
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Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) announced that the U.S. House Appropriations Committee approved an agriculture and rural development spending bill that will, among other things, help grow markets for local and organic agriculture.
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Organic farmers are forced to use large amounts of plastic, much of which goes right into the landfill.
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The USDA announced the discovery of unapproved GMO wheat plants in Washington state and said there is no evidence that it had entered the food supply.
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AquaBounty Technologies has announced the start of GMO salmon production at the company’s Indiana farm, a week after it has received its first shipment of GMO salmon eggs.
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Best known for its stevia, monk fruit, and botanical ingredients, Layn Corp has announced plans for a U.S. facility capable of processing a minimum of 5,000 tons of hemp biomass per year for full- and broad-spectrum oil, distillate and crystallized CBD isolate.
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The FDA’s first public hearing on cannabis and CBD generated emotional pleas on both sides of the debate and left plenty of unanswered questions.
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A complete breakdown of where 2020 candidates stand in regards to agricultural policy.
Read Article Under immense pressure, the USDA has said that all yet-to-be-certified “organic” hydroponic operators must abide by the rules of the mandatory three-year transition period. However, it did not address operations that have already been grandfathered in.
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