Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia Codirector Mark Kastel and OFARM Executive Director John Bobbe talk to Marketplace about how the organic standards are being abused by large companies seeking to spend and do less while profiting off of increasing consumer demand for certified organic products. As Customers Buy More Organic Food, A Call For More Industry Oversight… Read more »
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Follow the National Organic Standards Board Meeting in Jacksonville, FL #NOSB
Last Updated: November 2, 2017 at 3:12PM CT Join The Cornucopia Institute as we live tweet from the National Organic Standards Board meeting in Jacksonville, Florida. We will be sharing the play by play with our Twitter followers under #NOSB or simply follow our stream. For background on issues up for discussion at the meeting,… Read more »
The Final Chapter of Dean Foods: Bankruptcy
Dean Foods, the largest domestic milk producer, announced on November 12 that it was filing for bankruptcy. The company’s organic portfolio is anemic after packaging its former branded products division as WhiteWave Foods in 2013. In 2017, Organic Valley controversially partnered with Dean Foods on a joint bottling venture. After Dean’s bankruptcy announcement, Organic Valley… Read more »
Organic Food and a Healthier Future
The Organic Center Overweight, obesity and diabetes are collectively the nation’s number one public health problem. Effective interventions are urgently needed, especially among children and adolescents, in order to improve human well being and to slow, and hopefully soon, reduce growth in health care costs. Now, a new report from the Organic Center describes six… Read more »
Organic Hero Passes
I received a phone call this morning from Bill Welsh’s son Mike letting me know that he passed away last night. Bill, from Lansing, Iowa, was a pioneer in the organic farming and livestock in the Midwest. He certified his family’s Lansing, Iowa, farm organic back in 1980. The operation was the classic organic diversified… Read more »
Organic Farming More Popular In Ore., NW Schools
Organic Food News Today By STEVE BROWN, The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. – Organic studies haven’t traditionally been offered at land-grant universities, but these aren’t conventional ag students. Aspiring farmers arriving on campus these days may come from big cities in addition to rural areas, and some are as interested in organic and small-scale agriculture… Read more »
Six “Organic” Dairies in Texas Outproduce 453 Organic Dairies in Wisconsin
Cornucopia’s Take: Dairies across the country, both conventional and organic, are struggling to keep their doors open, thanks to the current milk glut. Industrial-scale “organic” confinement operations are flooding the market with their suspect organic milk, slashing milk prices below what it costs truly organic operations to produce it. While consumers may simply see the… Read more »
Wisconsin has Grown Into a Hotbed of Organic Farming
History, geography both played a part in making the state No. 1 in the nation for organic dairy farms. Minneapolis Star Tribune By Jenna Ross TAYLOR, Wis. — The pink had disappeared from the darkening sky, but the barn on this dairy farm radiated a warm light. Inside, the brothers worked in silence — wiping,… Read more »
Officials Back Deep Cuts in Atlantic Cod Harvest to Save Industry
New York Times By Katharine Q. Seelye and Jess Bidgood PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Fishery management officials meeting here on Wednesday voted to impose drastic new cuts to the commercial harvest of cod along the Atlantic coast, arguing that the only way to save the centuries-old cod fishing industry was to sharply limit it. In the… Read more »
Why You Should Care That 70% of Antibiotics Go Into Animal Feed
The Washington Post Wonkbook by Ezra Klein I don’t feel like talking about the election today. So let’s talk about something else. On Wednesday, the FDA finalized a plan to ask drug companies to “voluntarily” limit the use of certain antibiotics in animal feed. This might not seem like a huge deal to you. But… Read more »
