Insights and Stories on Markets

Apr. 26, 2019 at 2:54 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass Glacier FarmMedia staff A supply gut and questionable market demand has organic farmers concerned. “What we’re hearing from farmers is they’re having a tough time marketing anything,” remarked Scott Shiels of Grain Millers Canada Corp. in Yorkton, Sask. Many organic grains are in a supply glut, which […]

By OrganicBiz

Apr. 26, 2019 at 2:45 pm CDT

Read more: Supply glut dragging down organics market

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Apr. 15, 2019 at 2:25 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters – French food group Danone said Friday it had signed a definitive agreement for the sale of Earthbound Farms, its U.S. organic salad business, to California-based Taylor Farms. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The sale of Earthbound Farms, which had 2018 sales of about $400 […]

By OrganicBiz

Apr. 10, 2019 at 3:29 pm CDT

Brenda Tjaden of Sustainable Grain offers a forecast into how prices and market demand for a variety of organic cereals, oilseeds and pulses could take shape and what trends organic producers should pay close attention to. (Recorded February 2019 at the ‘Agroecology and Economics of Organics’ event in Winnipeg)

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Mar. 29, 2019 at 3:35 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin OrganicBiz staff/MarketsFarm The organic sector may be seeing steady growth from both producers switching to the organic route and consumers paying closer attention to their food choices, but increases on the supply side of the equation are outpacing demand for a number of crops and pressuring prices. […]

By OrganicBiz