Onerous Rule has Devastated California Raw Almond Producers WASHINGTON, DC – A federal appeals court ruled today, overturning a lower court decision, that a group of California almond farmers have the right to challenge a USDA regulation requiring the treatment of their raw almonds with a toxic fumigant or steam heat prior to sale to… Read more »
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Suit Pits Historic Town Against Big Pig Farms
Wall Street Journal By Lauren Etter ARROW ROCK, Mo. — This tiny historic town has emerged as a battleground over rules that agricultural groups say have hog-tied big pig farms. In 2007, residents of the town of 79 filed a lawsuit to stop a farmer who wanted to build a farm with 4,800 pigs on… Read more »
Organic Crops Succeeding in Ohio
by Kristy Foster Farm and Dairy WOOSTER, Ohio — While many farmers are struggling to make ends meet in this downward spiraling economy, one farming group is hanging on to its niche market. Dave Shively of Bowling Green, Ohio, is an organic farmer who attended a recent field day offered by the Organic Food Farming… Read more »
Small Growers in Short Supply
Local food boom increases demand. Expanding the pool of farmers ‘something that takes time.’ AJC.com By Coleman Wood When Jonathan Tescher began the East Atlanta Village Farmers Market in 2006, he had to start small despite the growing demand for locally grown organic food. The operating budget that first year was a mere $250, half… Read more »
USDA Releases “Naturally Raised” Claim Standards
Western Livestock Journal Producers hungry for a niche may have gotten a boost last week when USDA published its final standards for a naturally raised marketing claim in the Federal Register. The full text of the document outlines the different areas of public concern, including a broad review of the comments received and how the… Read more »
The Time Is Ripe for Napa’s Organic Grapes
The Washington Post By James Conaway You might be wondering why, if Napa is America’s ne plus ultra in technically pampered wines, flinty-eyed marketing and Type-A price pointing, some in the region are paying much attention to organically grown grapes. Why are they replacing Roundup herbicide with “teas” of yucca, nettles and herbs, fertilizer with… Read more »
American Grassfed Association Rejects New USDA Grassfed Label
Partners with Food Alliance for More Rigorous Standard and Certification Program Denver, CO – The American Grassfed Association (AGA), representing more than 300 grassfed livestock producers, today rejected standards for grassfed claims announced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), protesting rules that allow confinement of animals and the use of hormones and antibiotics…. Read more »
Carrageenan Makes Me Sick: Personal Stories
Cornucopia has heard from many people who suffer ill health effects from ingesting carrageenan. [Learn more about carrageenan, including a guide to help you avoid this inflammatory ingredient, on our research page.] We shared the following stories with regulators at the fall 2016 National Organic Standards Board meeting: “I suffer from sensitivity to carrageenan which… Read more »
Record Number of American Farmer Suicides
Cornucopia’s Take: The unfolding tragedy of deaths by suicide among American farmers is incredibly distressing and painful. One of the reasons Cornucopia was founded was to protect the economic lifeline that organic agriculture offered family farmers who were facing increased economic stress from the get big or get out mentality pervading conventional agriculture. And now,… Read more »
Former NOSB Chair: Approval Process for Synthetic/Non-Organic Materials… Turned on Its Head
[NOTE: Barry Flamm is a former Secretary of Cornucopia’s Board of Directors.] Certified Organics: 2015 by Barry Flamm Barry Flamm Members of MOA care deeply about organics. For many it is your life: manifesting a deep conviction that organics is the future for agriculture if a healthy, sustainable world is to be achieved. An important… Read more »
