Tag: organic
Growing with purpose: CEO shares vision for Whole Foods Market
- General News
Whole Foods Market CEO Jason Buechel unveiled Whole Foods Market’s 10-year vision to lead the company into the future, calling it Growing with Purpose, during the grocer’s first quarterly town hall meeting of the year.
Biological control for apple aphids
- Analysis
Biological controls for aphids in apples have been contemplated (and used) for decades.
Kroger celebrates 10 years of Simple Truth brand
- Retail
The Kroger Co., America's grocer, today shared its $3+ billion Simple Truth brand is marking its tenth anniversary, celebrating a decade of offering customers affordable and unique foods made with simple ingredients.
Homegrown Organic Farms expands EFI-certified acreage and commodities, introduces Responsibly Grown, Farmworker Assured Citrus
- General News
The new acreage joins the company’s fully EFI-certified stonefruit and blueberry programs, the first of which earned certification in 2020.
Organic Trade Association awarded record funding from USDA’s MAP
- General News
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) is pleased to announce it has received a record level of funding of more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Market Access Program (MAP) to promote U.S. organic products around the world in 2023.
Awe Sum Organics begins winter organic table grape season
- General News
Awe Sum Organics, the largest importer of Organic Table Grapes from the Southern Hemisphere has begun the 10th season of their Organic Peruvian Winter Table Grape Program.
Looking ahead to Organic Grower Summit 2022
- General News
Two days of thought-provoking educational sessions, a sold-out trade show floor, and a variety of networking opportunities await attendees of next week’s fifth annual Organic Grower Summit (OGS) in Monterey, CA.
Stemilt’s Cosmic Crisp apples become year-round variety
- General News
Amid a smaller national apple crop, Cosmic Crisp apples will launch as a year-round variety on December 1 as it grows in volume, especially in organics.
Soli Organic to build first soil-based organic indoor farm in San Antonio
- General News
Soli Organic Inc., the nation's only soil-based, indoor farming company delivering 100% USDA certified organic produce, today announced plans to build a high-tech, automated indoor farm and co-located packing facility in the Brooks community in San Antonio, Texas.
Organic Grower Summit 2022 adds education sessions on biologicals and retail sales
- General News
A pair of recently announced educational sessions will explore the growing importance of biologicals as a tool of organic crop production and offer a look at the growth of organic fresh produce sales at grocery stores across the nation this year as the final parts of the educational program at Organic Grower Summit (OGS) 2022 presented by Western Growers and OPN.