Horizon Organic is owned by the French corporation Danone. Stonyfield Organic, the yogurt maker in New Hampshire that buys organic milk from New England farmers, is owned by Lactalis.

This supply comes from more than 222,000 farmers in 19 countries who grew more than 1.1 million bales of organic cotton during the 2017-2018 growing season — the second-largest organic cotton ...

Organic farmers Janet and Terry Jacobson say genetically modified crops are threatening their way of life. On their small Langdon, N.D., farm, the Jacobsons grow wheat, oats, sunflowers and millet ...

Organic dairy farmer Abbie Corse talks about farming at her family's more than 150-year-old-farm, in Whitingham, Vt., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Organic dairy and other livestock farmers are calling ...

While farmers seem hesitant, U.S. consumers aren't. Annual sales of organic products have roughly doubled in the past decade and now top $63 billion, according to the Organic Trade Association.

Robert Yoder's animals have the most luxurious lives of anyone on his farm. On a windy October morning in Bloomfield, Iowa, the 32-year-old Yoder can be found out in the ...

Organic dairy farmers pleaded with state lawmakers in both the Senate and House agriculture committees on Thursday to provide emergency funding during an economic crisis in the industry. As many ...

But times have changed. Maddie Kempner, NOFA’s policy director, told lawmakers that organic dairy farmers currently earn an average of $9 less for 100 pounds of milk than it costs to produce ...

To assess the usage of and demand for organic seed, the report’s authors surveyed of 1,365 organic farms (including Love Farm Organics), 16 seed companies, 46 researchers, and 22 accredited organic ...

Organic farmers were also likely to opt out of certification if the process became too much of a hassle. “Farmers were more likely to decertify if they perceived that loss of freedom, paperwork, cost ...

That mandate requires farmers to "conserve biodiversity by incorporating practices in their organic system plan that are beneficial to biodiversity on the operation," the statement said.