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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 04, 2024
The Organic Trade Association has chosen its next CEO and executive director. Tom Chapman, who has extensive experience in the organic industry, will replace outgoing OTA leader Laura Batcha on April 18.
With climate change mitigation and carbon reduction a top priority of the Biden administration, the organic sector wants to make sure it isn’t left behind.
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) and National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association (NLFRTA) are forming a strategic alliance that the groups say will help them “strengthen their impact on national public policy.”
The Organic Trade Association is both pleased and disappointed with USDA’s decision to reopen the comment period on a long-delayed proposed rule regulating when livestock can be considered organic.
The European Commission is showing its bias towards the minority of organic farmers in the trading bloc while cutting funding for the overall ag sector, according to some of the largest agriculture and food organizations in the European Union.
An economically robust American organic sector thrashes through its dilemmas about what's really organic as some regulatory sideboards come off or are found missing.
“Adapt or die,” a saying made famous in the early 1970s by then-Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz as he encouraged farmers to look for ways to be more efficient and responsive to market signals, still rings true for many in agriculture today.
