The first section of this memorandum summarizes the changes to the scope of the organic certification requirements, with a focus on the revised definition of “handle” and related terms. These changes ...

Seeking to protect integrity in the organic supply chain and build consumer and industry trust in the USDA Organic label, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed on August 5 to ...

The $35 billion organic-food industry has nearly tripled in size in the past decade, challenging the Agriculture Department’s ability to monitor the more than 25,000 farms and other organizations that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Midwestern fruit and vegetable farmers are more likely than their counterparts in other regions to give up federal organic certification, according to a Purdue University study.

Operations in California that want to call their product organic need to register with the CDFA State Organic Program (SOP) and comply with USDA National Organic Program (NOP) regulations. Farmers who ...

The question of whether hydroponic production can be certified as organic now rests with a panel of federal appeals court judges, who seemed to be inclined to affirm a lower court decision allowing ...

Lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to finalize long-stalled regulations that would prevent dairies from moving cows between organic and conventional herds. Greg Ibach, USDA’s ...

A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an Oregon hazelnut farmer’s lawsuit challenging the USDA’s organic labeling rule for foreign suppliers. Two years ago, Bruce Kaser of Pratum Farm ...

A North Carolina brewery is dropping its federal organic certification because of difficulty in finding organic hops and other ingredients.The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Pisgah Brewing of Black ...