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 »
The National Organic Program’s Organic Integrity Database currently lists nearly 1,000 certified egg operations. We need your help identifying them, and getting more authentic organic brands on the shelves of your local co-op, natural grocery store, or other retail outlet. As organic egg sales continue to rise, making up 8% of US egg sales in… Read more »
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 »
by Jérôme Rigot, PhD Can we be sure that the “organic” in the USDA Certified Organic seal retains its meaning and remains true to its mandate of assuring consumers that food under this label is truly healthy and grown or raised with minimal impact to the environment and respects the health and well-being of the workers… Read more »
by Jérôme Rigot, PhD Can we be sure that the “organic” in the USDA Certified Organic seal retains its meaning and remains true to its mandate of assuring consumers that food under this label is truly healthy and grown or raised with minimal impact to the environment and respects the health and well-being of the workers… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
