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Cal-Organic shipping a seasonal celery and limited-edition red-bunch carrots
Organic vegetable giant Cal-Organic Farms is now shipping organic red bunch carrots and celery from Coachella, California, according to a news release... more »
Grimmway names product innovation and development director
Grimmway Farms recently hired food industry veteran Keri Morrelli as the company’s product innovation and development director. Joining the Sales... more »
Lundberg Family Farms updates its logo, website and products
Lundberg Family Farms recently announced an updated look and feel for its 84-year-old brand. The company is formally debuting a new logo, a refresh... more »
Yakima, Washington’s Blueberry Hill pleased with trial of RipeLocker storage
Perishables storage company RipeLocker, said Jan. 13 its RipeLocker containers recently held freshly harvested organic blueberries in pristine conditi... more »
Washington State University to hold organic no-till symposium
Washington State University Extension and Oregon Tilth will hold a Zoom virtual symposium on no-till agriculture Feb. 24-25, 2021. Extension invite... more »
Merge Marketplace, a ‘Craigslist for organic producers and buyers,’ goes live
Merge Marketplace, a new online platform designed to connect organic producers with buyers of organic products, recently went live. Buyers can list... more »
Organic certifications grow slightly to 45K farms and businesses
U.S.-recognized organic certifications didn't decrease in the old year, even growing slightly. The USDA’s National Organic Program released an an... more »
Rodale offers organic transition, beekeeping courses at ‘virtual campus’
Rodale Institute, a leader of regenerative organic agriculture, has launched the Rodale Virtual Campus, a new educational platform for farmers, r... more »
10 organic certifiers recognized by USDA for data quality
Ten agencies who certify food and products as organic were honored Jan. 25 by the USDA National Organic Program. The awards were meant to celebrate... more »
AgBiome names Marijn Dekkers chairman of its board of directors
AgBiome, a leader in developing innovative products from the Earth's microbial communities, announced Dr. Marijn Dekkers as the company’s Chairman, ... more »
Study details environmental benefits of growing cotton organically
Cotton is grown throughout the world. But conventional cotton is a chemically intensive crop with serious consequences for the Earth’s air, water, s... more »
Organic produce sales an $8.5B industry in 2020, up 14%
Buoyed by a fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, 2020 organic produce sales finished with a 14.2% increase over the previous year, outpa... more »
