The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

Global non-GM soybean demand to rise, driven by EU: Rabobank

By Rei Geyssens Demand for “specialized” beans, such as organic, certified or plain non-GM beans, are expected to rise as consumers want to verify the sustainability of food production and to be able to track its origin, Rabobank said in a Grain & Oilseeds update published in May. The biggest increase in demand is coming […]

China reportedly not buying any U.S. soybeans

Amid trade tensions between the U.S. and China resulting from President Trump’s proposed tariffs on steel, aluminum, and electronics from China, the world’s largest importer of soybeans is no longer importing from the United States, according to a Bloomberg report. Soybeans are the second-largest U.S. crop—and in 2017, China bought $14 billion of it. “Whatever […]

Organic feed demand to achieve double-digit growth again over 2018

By Ryan Koory, Mercaris senior economist In the recently-released Mercaris Annual Organic Commodity Reports, Mercaris reported that the 2017/2018 marketing year will see continued growth in feed demand. Sustained expansion in U.S. organic livestock production is expected to push the demand for organic feed grains up 35 percent this marketing year, as compared to 2016/17. […]

BYF Brands builds secure non-GMO corn supply chain for PopCorners snack product

Three years ago, BYF Brands, maker of PopCorners snack product, took a big step to improve its supply chain and secure non-GMO corn for its product. Securing a non-GMO supply chain that would pass the Non-GMO Project’s stringent verification required seeking help from Bunge, a 200-year-old global ingredient supplier that company president Dan Morgan said […]

Non-GMO and organic seed trial data now online

The US Testing Network (USTN) announced that its non-GMO and organic seed yield trial data is now available online. USTN was launched in 2009 when a few cutting-edge seed corn retailers and breeders decided it was time to build something they couldn’t find—a yield trial testing network for their non-GMO and organic hybrids. Sarah Carlson […]