The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

Natural Products Expo West returns as in-person event

Largest event in $274 billion industry attracts 57,000 attendees Informa Markets’ Natural Products Expo West, part of the New Hope Network family of brands, recently hosted the in-person return of the industry’s largest trade show March 8-12 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. Now in its 41st year, the event gathered over 2,700 exhibitors […]

China’s non-GMO “seawater rice” could boost food security

A salt-tolerant rice, produced with conventional breeding, is being touted as a booster to China’s food security. Developed by scientist Yuan Longping, the rice has reported a yield of 4.6 metric tons per acres last year, higher than the national average for standard rice. However, current researchers are supposedly trying to introduce GM traits into […]

Benson Hill’s new TruVail™ non-GMO soy protein brand reduces carbon and water use

Benson Hill food tech company has launched a new line of domestically sourced, non-GMO plant-based protein ingredients with unique sustainability benefits. The TruVail brand derives from proprietary Ultra-High Protein (UHP) soybeans, reducing need for additional processing steps typically required to concentrate protein levels. The non-GMO ingredient can be used for bakery, cereal, snacks, and meat […]

Saving the banana the non-GMO way

By Jonathan Matthews and Claire Robinson For over 20 years in news story after news story they’ve been telling us that only genetic modification can save the banana—and yet again, such claims turn out not to be true. Edible bananas are sterile, they told us, and they can only be cloned, so if they’re very vulnerable […]

Organic agriculture promotes overall biodiversity, study finds

A Saskatchewan-based study from Dalhousie University concluded that organic agriculture contributes to overall biodiversity, partly due to crop diversity (crop rotation) that accumulates diverse organisms in the soil and maintains fertility. Researcher Wenjie Xu analyzed 71 organic and conventional field pairs and found that organic growers leave more semi-natural vegetation in fields than conventional farmers. […]