The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

October adds additional challenges to organic soybean meal trade

U.S.-India organic trade outlook still in flux according to Mercaris The hits keep coming for U.S.-India organic trade—that’s the takeaway from Mercaris in November on the cusp of a number of changes in October out of India. The impacts came in late October when the Indian Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) […]

PURIS launches new facility that doubles its pea protein production capacity

PURIS, a pioneer in plant-based food systems, recently announced that its new production facility in Dawson, Minnesota is officially online. The state-of-the-art facility more than doubles production capacity for the company, making PURIS the leading supplier of pea protein in North America and accelerating its mission to build a sustainable food system. The Dawson facility, which was retrofitted from an […]

BIOFACH and VIVANESS 2022: International organic food and organic cosmetics trade fair resumes, in person

After meeting virtually in 2021, the 2022 round of BIOFACH, World’s Leading Trade Fair for Organic Food, and VIVANESS, International Trade Fair for Natural and Organic Personal Care will resume in person Feb. 15-18, 2022, in Nuremberg, Germany. The event offers a multisensory experience featuring digital add-ons, incorporating the best aspects from last year’s online […]

Report identifies poor soil health as national security threat

A new report, “Soil Health: A National Security Profile,” by the United Kingdom-based Food & Global Security Network, calls on government leaders to formally recognize healthy soil as a strategic asset, critical for maintaining food and societal security.  It says that defense departments globally should work with departments of agriculture and the environment to jointly […]

Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation and Soil Health Institute launch new U.S. regenerative cotton program

The U.S. Regenerative Cotton Fund aims to assist farmers in implementing regenerative agricultural practices across more than one million acres of U.S. cotton cropland; the goal is to draw down one million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from the atmosphere by 2026 The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation and the Soil Health Institute recently announced […]