Insights and Stories on Organic

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 […]

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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. […]

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Mar. 29, 2019 at 3:00 pm CDT

Read more: Organic supply pressuring demand, prices getting squeezed

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Mar. 8, 2019 at 1:13 pm CST

At a recent event entitled ‘AgroEcology and the Economics of Organics,’ Brenda Tjaden of Sustainable Grain offered a presentation on the economic opportunities for organics in Western Canada. In this video, Tjaden looks at how converting over a million acres in Western Canada to certified organic can have little negative […]

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