Organic has a new challenge. It’s not getting consumers to pay the higher prices, it’s convincing enough farmers to get past their organic reluctance and start taking advantage of the revenue pouring in.
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Organic has a new challenge. It’s not getting consumers to pay the higher prices, it’s convincing enough farmers to get past their organic reluctance and start taking advantage of the revenue pouring in.
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The total number of US acres dedicated to organic production has declined year-over-year.
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According to the Organic Produce Network and Category Partners, inflation gave a lift to organic fresh produce dollar sales but pinched unit volume in the second quarter of 2022.
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Dollar sales of refrigerated meat alternatives are declining in double-digits, while frozen products are growing in the high single digits, according to IRI data crunched by 210 Analytics.
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In a worst-case scenario, McKinsey is predicting a food deficit representing a year’s worth of nutritional intake for up to 250m people – or 3% of the global population.
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Organic grain production in the U.S. is growing but not fast enough to meet the organic livestock industry’s needs
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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments challenging a district court ruling that authorized the USDA to continue certifying soil-less hydroponic operations as organic under the organic label.
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Weather and war have hurt supplies of the protein-packed bean, driving up food prices and creating headaches for food manufacturers.
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Even though James Clayton Wolf’s organic farming certification was revoked in 2020, he continued selling non-GMO grain falsely labeled as organic through an “associate.”
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Worldwide demand for organic dairy products is growing, but U.S. producers face a number of challenges hindering their ability to capitalize.
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Figures from the IPA TouchPoints 2022 data set, in research carried out between January and March of this year, people preferring to eat organic food fell from 15.1% to 10.9%.
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Small-scale meat producers have long suffered from a lack of access to processing facilities, and COVID exacerbated this problem.
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Biodiversity loss could flatten corporate profits. Investors are scrambling to figure out which firms hold the most risk.
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In data coming out of the Organic Trade Association, the industry achieved very tepid growth in 2021, not much of a surprise after the panic buying and supply chain challenges in 2020.
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An absolutely ominous situation is unfolding in the state that produces the most organic food in the country.
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With food-at-home prices in April 2022 up a staggering 10.8% vs April 2021, consumers are beginning to change their behavior in numerous ways.
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Studies show that these chemicals can leach into food and drinks, causing infertility, birth defects and harm to brain development.
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Out of 67 cooking oil products tested in 2021 and 2022, only one organic canola oil brand was reported to contain any detection of PFAS.
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Agtech startup NanoBio Designs LLC says its technology is able to reduce genetic testing of seeds from days to minutes.
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More fallout from the NYT investigation about fraud in the Indian organic cotton market.
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Let’s hope that rational minds prevail and do not allow this science experiment to proceed.
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Some UK organic farmers are being paid a milk price that is lower than the price some of their non-organic competitors get.
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A publishing company linked to the most powerful agricultural lobby group in the U.S. is releasing children’s books extolling the benefits of pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers.
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Some very discouraging truths about how the organic label is viewed by consumers.
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