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August 31, 2009

Largest Organic Factory Farm Operator Once Again Accused of Illegal Activity

Family Dairy Farmers Appeal to Obama Administration for Swift Enforcement WASHINGTON, DC: Aurora Dairy, based in Boulder, Colorado, the nation’s largest organic dairy producer, is ...

October 31, 2007

Aurora Dairy Exemption from Check-off Program Challenged

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 ...

October 25, 2007

Organic Dairy Allowed to Continue Operations Near Gill Until Hearing in August

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 ...

October 22, 2007

Huge Dairy Doesn’t Fit Organic Image

Aurora operation foes say farm pays lip service to ideal Rocky Mountain News By Joyzelle Davis PLATTEVILLE, CO – Not far from the truck stops ...

October 3, 2007

An Organic Milk War Turns Sour

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 ...

September 29, 2007

Was Target’s Organic Milk Just Regular?

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 ...

September 13, 2007

USDA Enforcement Action At Nation’s Largest Dairy Fails to Levy Fines or Yank Certification – Findings of Investigation Appear to Constitute Fraud

Watchdog: Organic Community “Taking the Law into Its Own Hands” CORNUCOPIA, WI: Announcing the filing of additional legal complaints with the USDA, and threatening civil ...

August 31, 2007

Willful Violations

On April 16, 2007, the Mark Bradley, the head of the National Organic Program, sent a letter to Marc Peperzak, the CEO of the Aurora ...

August 30, 2007

Update on Aurora and Trader Joe’s

We have verified that although some of the milk that Trader Joe’s is buying does indeed come from a factory-farm, milking thousands of cows, that ...

August 30, 2007

USDA Enforcement Hammer Falls on Nation’s Largest Organic Factory Dairy

USDA Requiring Aurora Organics to Reduce Dairy Herd Size and Remove Organic Label from Some Milk At 7:20 p.m. EST, August 29, the USDA issued ...

August 24, 2007

USDA Releases “Letter of Noncompliance” to The Cornucopia Institute

FOIA Document Indicates Why CA Factory-Farm Lost Organic Certification CORNUCOPIA, WI: Pursuant to a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), The Cornucopia Institute ...

August 14, 2007

USDA Cracking Down on “Organic” Factory-Farms

Country’s Largest Dairy Likely to Lose Certification CORNUCOPIA, WI: The Cornucopia Institute has learned that the USDA appears about to revoke the organic certification of ...