Organic Dairy: Make an Informed Choice
September 11, 2026
Cornucopia’s Take: Watch an award-winning film from the 2016 Real Food Films contest. Presently there are about 50 restaurants in the U.S. successfully operating with the “pay-as-you-can” model. Everybody Eats 2016 Winner at Real Food Films on Vimeo 2016 Real Food Films Winner: Best Lens on Hunger
...Cornucopia’s Take: In conventional economic thought, employers pay unskilled labor as little as possible to maximize profits. Cornucopia supports the spirit of organics, in which employees are paid a living wage to work in safe conditions. In a California Valley, Healthy Food Everywhere but on the Table The New York ...
Organic Yogurt the Offspring [This article was previously published in the fall issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Rachel Zegerius, Communications and Development Associate at The Cornucopia Institute The Lazors have grown and processed theirown organic grains for years. This year, however, they transitioned the cowsonto a 100% ...
Through his iconic books, Eliot Coleman has been a mentor to many organic farmers over the years. He was also very generous with his time when I was starting out as a certified organic producer almost 30 years ago. The antidote for the concerns Eliot articulates in his essay below ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Networks of organic farmers here and abroad are working together to improve farming methods. Many of these innovations show real cost savings and could prove practical, and sustainable, for conventional farmers as well. Farming network shares new thinking and techniques Farmers Weekly by Philip Clarke Blackgrass Source: www.bayercropscience.co.uk ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Germany is determining whether to classify crops developed with the new gene-editing technology as genetically modified or to acquiesce to industry mouthpieces declaring that classification unnecessary given no genes have been added to the DNA. Cornucopia supports the precautionary principle and advocates for strict regulations that help consumers ...
Cornucopia’s Take: The EPA’s approval of Monsanto’s XtendiMax with VaporGrip Technology herbicide is projected to increase dicamba use from less than one million pounds to more than 25 million annually on soy and cotton fields. Dicamba is an older generation persistent pesticide that has been linked to damage of the ...
On November 17 at the National Organic Standards Board Meeting in St. Louis, carrageenan was voted to be removed from the National List of approved additives in organic food! Source: José Luis Briz The decision was a big win for consumers, who have been voting with their purchasing power for ...
Hydroponics (aka Container Growing) Could Be Revisited in the Spring Whether or not to allow hydroponics as a production technique in organics was up for a vote at last week’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in St. Louis. In the end, the controversial hydroponics vote was delayed with the ...
The Unsung Heroes of a Balanced Farm Ecosystem [This article was previously published in the fall issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Kestrel Burcham, JD Farm and Food Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute Source: Adobe Stock As any organic farmer knows, balancing on-farm biodiversity with agricultural production ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Male chicks have long been a casualty of industrial egg production. “Ovo-sexing” would allow producers to learn the sex of the bird in the egg the day it is hatched, enabling “male eggs” to be sold as eggs, rather than suffer destruction at birth. New technique may prevent ...
Cornucopia’s Take: Antitrust concerns have delayed regulatory approval of Group Danone’s proposed acquisition of WhiteWave. Learn more and sign the petition asking the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize the proposal on our website. WhiteWave’s sale to Danone delayed Denver Business Journal by Mark Harden Horizon ...
