Organic food sales topped $60 billion in 2022
Organic sales grew by 4% despite inflation challenges Organic food sales in the United States in 2022 broke through $60 billion for the first time, hitting another high-level mark for the resilient…
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Roberts Seed sprouts profits in cleaning organic and non-GMO grain
By Mary Jane Skala, Kearney Hub Staff Writer “When you sit down to dinner, thank a farmer.” So says a sign on…
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Senator Welch introduces bill to reduce barriers to organic agriculture
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has supported a new senate bill reducing challenges to switching to organic agriculture. Senator Peter Welch…
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USDA restores Organic Certification Cost Share Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) recently announced that they would be restoring reimbursement rates for the Organic Certification…
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Nature’s Path supports 15 community gardens with more than $100,000 in grants through its Gardens for Good Program
Nature’s Path, North America’s largest certified breakfast and snack food company, is awarding 15 community gardens $7,500 each through its annual Gardens for Good program. Gardens…
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International Non-GMO Summit focuses on ensuring non-GMO and deforestation-free supplies
GMO-free requires dialogue and cooperation along the entire value chain Consumers want food that is produced without genetic engineering and deforestation. There…
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Sevita introduces non-GMO, high oleic Alinova soybean variety
Sevita Genetics has received regulatory approval for Alinova, a non-GMO, high-oleic soybean variety, which is the first of its kind for Canada’s…
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Agroforestry shows great promise as regenerative ag technique
Trees represent one of the most promising regenerative agriculture techniques, according to Ethan Steinberg, CEO and co-founder of Propagate, an agroforestry startup. The…
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Bipartisan COVER Act will boost farm resilience and soil health
U.S. Representatives Sean Casten (D-Ill.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), and Michael Bost (R-Ill.), and U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) recently introduced the Conservation…
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Purely Elizabeth partners with Mad Agriculture for first regenerative impact program
Natural foods brand invests in regenerative agriculture and commits to goal of sourcing 1/3 of its ingredient volume from regenerative agriculture methods…
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Idaho farm to demonstrate regenerative potato growing
A fourth-generation Idaho farmer is breaking new ground by experimenting with a new way to raise the state’s flagship crop—potatoes. Partnering with…
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PepsiCo invests $216 million in regenerative agriculture projects
PepsiCo announced a $216 million investment in partnerships with three farmer-facing organizations—Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), Soil and Water Outcomes Fund (SWOF), and the…
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Upcycled ingredients is a fast-growing trend
Upcycling is gaining traction among a growing number of consumers and food manufacturers that want to reduce food waste, which is a…
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Young Canadians willing to pay more for organic, non-GMO food
About one-in-four Canadians frequently check labels to see if the products they buy are organic and non-GMO. Canadians aged 18 to 34…
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Ciranda offers reduced sugar syrups
Ciranda’s new line of organic and non-GMO reduced sugar syrups from agave and tapioca can be used as a single syrup replacement…
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Ronnie Cummins, 1946-2023
Ronnie Cummins, a powerful advocate for regenerative organic agriculture and food production, passed away in Mexico on April 26, 2023 to recently…
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Mexico emphasizes right to ban imports of GMO white corn
The Mexican people support their government’s ban on the use of genetically modified white corn for manufacturing flour and tortillas. The ban…
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Unfair U.S. trade practices undermine Mexico’s food self-sufficiency efforts
New report reveals how U.S. agricultural dumping has led to lost income for Mexican farmers, increased dependency on imports for food staples…
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GMO mosquito experiment halted in California’s Central Valley
Environmentalists, scientists, and unprotected agricultural communities across California were pleased this May when the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announced the…
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Italy bans lab-grown food as threat to tradition
Italy wants to safeguard its agri-food heritage, and its agriculture ministry feels high-tech, laboratory-produced food— “from cell cultures or tissues derived from…
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Gene-edited leafy greens launched in the U.S. but consumers won’t know they are eating a GMO product
Pairwise, a food startup, recently announced the launch of its inaugural product, Conscious™ Greens, under its Conscious Foods brand. The product is…
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GMO wheat contaminating conventional wheat in Argentina
Maker of the GMO wheat, Bioceres-Indear, reported that 25 mills are mixing the GMO wheat with conventional wheat. The GMO wheat, which…
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First trials over deadly pesticide Paraquat scheduled for this year
More than 3,000 farmers have filed lawsuits against paraquat’s manufacturers, Chevron and Syngenta The herbicide paraquat was introduced in 1962 and promoted…
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Farmers, conservationists ask court to strike down crop-damaging dicamba pesticide
Toxic drift continues to harm millions of farmland acres, wild places, endangered species Four public-interest organizations representing farmers and conservationists recently filed…
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Testing finds glyphosate in two popular oat milks
Two out of 13 popular brands of oat milk had detectable levels of the controversial herbicide glyphosate, according to a new report from…
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Kansas City nonprofit grows free, organic produce for cancer patients
Kansas City, Missouri nonprofit Food for the Cure is providing organic produce to support recovery of cancer patients in the area.…
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Iowa, Minnesota farmers plead guilty in organic fraud schemes
Two farmers, one in Iowa and another in Minnesota, recently pleaded guilty to selling conventionally grown crops as organic in multimillion-dollar fraud…
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