USDA should demand retroactive payment from faux organic milk producers
Cornucopia, WI “The Cornucopia Institute has sent a formal request to the Chief of the USDA’s Dairy Promotion and Research Program, requesting that the program collect almost three years’ worth of unpaid dairy promotion “check-off” assessments from the Colorado-based Aurora Dairy.
Since February 2005, the USDA has [...]

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The Greeley Tribune
Andrew Villegas
Aurora Organic Dairy near Gill will be allowed to continue operations despite a substantial fly problem bothering neighbors.
The Board of Weld County Commissioners decided on a split vote Wednesday to continue a hearing until August 2008 that could revoke the dairy’s special permit to operate the dairy with 4,500 cows.
Of central concern [...]

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Aurora operation foes say farm pays lip service to ideal
Rocky Mountain News
By Joyzelle Davis
PLATTEVILLE, CO - Not far from the truck stops that mark the I-25 turnoff to Longmont, Colorado’s largest organic dairy spreads across 500 acres.
Some of the farm’s 1,075 black-and- white Holsteins amble across a pasture while others in open-air paddocks chew on [...]

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Now that his dairy company has settled charges that it violated organic food standards, Aurora president Mark Retzloff wants to muzzle foes. Fortune’s Marc Gunther reports.
Fortune
By Marc Gunther, Fortune senior writer
(Fortune) – Mark Retzloff, a pioneer of the $16.7 billion organic food industry and president of Aurora Organic Dairy, lobbied for years for strict government [...]

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Claims that “organic” milk sold to Target and Wal-Mart was conventional highlight a dispute over dairy-farm practices.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
By Matt McKinney
Ever wonder how Target Corp. could sell its organic milk for dollars less than other stores? Turns out the milk might not have been truly organic after all.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) [...]

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