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Danone sells U.S. organic salad business to Taylor Farms

April 15, 2019

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 million, is part of Danone’s […]

VIDEO: Organic prices market outlook

April 10, 2019

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)

Organic supply pressuring demand, prices getting squeezed

March 29, 2019

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. The organic pea market in […]

New organic legislation takes effect in Alberta on April 1

March 28, 2019

Organic Alberta – New provincial legislation takes effect on April 1, 2019, bolstering consumer confidence in the highly scrutinized organic food industry. With the rise of the “foodie” movement, farm-to-fork, and supporting local, Albertans are becoming more savvy, health-conscious, educated, and selective of their food purchasing. On April 1st, 2019, the Supporting Alberta’s Local Food Sector […]

VIDEO: Regenerative agriculture and the importance of interrelationships in soils

March 18, 2019

By OrganicBiz staff At a recent event held last month in Winnipeg, soil health educator Joel Williams of Integrated Soils discussed a wide variety of topics relating to soil biology and what farmers can do to build more diversity into their crop systems, the benefits of intercropping, the growing interest in regenerative agriculture and the […]

Growing organic sector now faces macro challenges

January 11, 2019

By Laura Rance OrganicBiz editor In naming organic foods as one of its “Tops of 2018,” global analytics company Nielsen ends any debate over whether the industry now worth US$90-billion worldwide is a fad or a trend. “Organic appears to be an age-old growth driver that’s here to stay,” the company says in an online […]

Report says Canadian GMO escapes common

April 17, 2019

By Allan Dawson Glacier FarmMedia staff Better regulations are needed to prevent contamination from genetically modified organisms (GMOs). That’s what the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) and the SaskOrganics’ Organic Agriculture Protection Fund committee (OAPF) concludes in a report called GM Contamination in Canada: The failure to contain living modified organisms – incidents and impacts. […]

Organic farmers don’t get a pass on clubroot

April 2, 2019

By Laura Rance Glacier FarmMedia editorial director Saskatoon – Organic farmers are mistaken if they think they will be spared from the clubroot infestation making its way across the Prairies because they don’t grow canola, a crops extension specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture says. Brent Flaten warned growers attending the SaskOrganics annual conference March 29 the […]

Organic wheat varieties waiting in the registration gate

March 26, 2019

By Alexis Stockford Glacier FarmMedia staff The University of Manitoba’s farm-based organic wheat-breeding program is ready to start towards commercialization, but the body responsible for recommending new genetics to the CFIA says there is still work to be done. Jamie Larsen, chair of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Wheat, Rye and Triticale (PRCWRT), says a […]

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