Organic and Non-GMO Market News

Demystifying Public Grocery Stores: Stores without Shareholders

Here’s the easily digestible truth. The smell of fresh bread, the chatter of neighbors, and the quiet hum of cash registers. These ordinary grocery moments belie the complexity beneath them. Today, as proposals for public grocery stores crop up across the country, many people assume they represent an entirely new retail model that could create […]

Taking Markets In Their Own Hands

Small mills investing in infrastructure revive local grain markets.  The sight of a truck loaded with Iowa-grown grain preparing for a long road trip west felt backward to Breadtopia’s Vice President, Galen Saturley. The grain had been grown practically in their backyard, but without a nearby cleaner that could meet their standards, it had to […]

Protecting organic integrity: understanding and mitigating high-risk ingredient fraud

By Allison McLeod, technical scheme lead, Quality Assurance International According to the Organic Trade Association, organic product sales continue to trend upward, with consumer demand fueling $71.6 billion in sales in 2024 (a 5.2% increase from 2023 and double the growth rate of the total food marketplace). Greater demand, however, also results in increased opportunities […]

Grain buyers offer contracts to grow organic and non-GMO grains in 2025

The following companies are offering contracts to farmers to grow non-GMO and organic grains in 2025: Ag Partners Co-Op, Seneca, KS Phone: 913-609-0029 Email: michael.moritz@AgPartnersCoop.com Contact: Michael Moritz Contracts offered: Non-GMO soybeans. Clark Specialty Grains, Gothenburg, NE Phone: 308-537-2004 Email: contact@clarkspecialtygrains.com Contracts offered: Conventionally and organically grown Non-GMO Project Verified white, yellow, blue, and pink corn. Consolidated […]

International non-GMO markets are “successful and thriving”

International Non-GMO Summit brings together leaders of the non-GMO movement in EU and U.S.; unites against new GMO technologies The international non-GMO industry continues to grow but faces threats from the possible deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), such as gene editing. These were key takeaways of the International Non-GMO Summit held in Frankfurt, Germany […]