The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

Organic Trade Association releases forward-looking 2023 Farm Bill platform

Building on progress proposed for the organic sector in the 2018 Farm Bill, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) released its platform for the 2023 bill. Priorities include ensuring organic standards keep pace with marketplace demands, providing research and risk management tools to organic farmers, and enacting policies strengthening resilience of the supply chain. “Organic is […]

Global organic farmland and market continued to grow in 2021

Organic retail sales increased by 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) and reached almost 125 billion euros ($135 billion) in 2021; organic farmland grew to 76.4 million hectares (188.7 million acres). Organic farmland and retail sales both continued to show growth worldwide, according to data from 191 countries (data as of the end of 2021). Published […]

I’m sorry, corporate profit outweighs the right to choose

What right does our government, our research institutions, or a group of multi-national corporations have to tell anyone what they must eat, what chemicals they must use, and that their culture and environment are of little concern? By Jim Goodman Corporate money has always corrupted the political process in order to create laws and trade […]

Regenerative organic certification reaffirms Lundberg Family Farms’ four generation mission to “leave the land better than we found it”

Company sets goal to certify all organic rice grown on its farms as regenerative organic by 2027 Lundberg Family Farms, a leading grower of organic rice and maker of packaged rice and rice snacks, recently announced it is the first U.S.-grown rice brand to earn Regenerative Organic Certification. As part of its robust sustainability efforts, […]

Testy exchange marks precision fermentation session at Expo West

In response to a complaint that the session was one-sided opposing the GMO technology, panelists said synthetic biology conferences are one-sided in favor of the technology, and that precision fermentation companies have no business exhibiting at a natural products trade show. An educational session at Natural Products Expo West on so-called “precision fermentation”—a new GMO/synthetic […]