Fruit World Enters Citrus Season With New High-Graphic Sustainable Packaging and Increased Volume of Flavor-Packed Organic and Conventional Offerings

October 6, 2020 Fruit World

Fruit World, a family-owned, flavor-focused grower-shipper of organic and conventional fruit, enters their 2020 citrus season with bold, new recyclable packaging and increased availability of 100% California-grown organic and conventional mandarins, along with organic oranges, grapefruit, lemons, and sweet limes.

Awe Sum Organics announces their Organic Peruvian Grape Program for the Winter Season

October 1, 2020 Awe Sum Organics

Sweet, crisp and flavorful, Awe Sum Organics’ Peruvian Table Grapes offer our customers a full and reliable supply of high-quality organic table grapes for loading on both coasts during the winter months when organic fruit options are limited.

Organic Dairy Realized Both Higher Costs and Higher Gross and Net Returns Than Conventional Dairy Farms

Dairy farms in the United States have faced persistent economic pressures, which have been particularly acute for small commercial farms with 10-199 milk cows. The number of such farms fell by 37 percent between 2007 and 2017, according to USDA’s Census of Agriculture, and more have left the industry since. Milk production has shifted to much larger farms (with 1,000 cows or more), which realize much lower costs on average than smaller farms.

Bell & Evans Amid Construction of Impressive $ 330M Organic-Certified Chicken Harvesting Facility That Will Double Production

September 8, 2020 Bell & Evans

Premium poultry producer Bell & Evans began construction on a new 411,500 square foot, Organic-Certified Chicken Harvesting Facility in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania. The first precast walls were placed in July, and the facility will be operational by late 2021. The project will cost the company approximately $ 330 million and double its current production capacity.

Ohio Doesn’t Have Enough Organic Meat Certifiers to Meet Demand

September 2, 2020 ADORA NAMIGADDE, WOSU

Grocery stores have more organic options today than they did 10 years ago, and Ohio farmers are helping lead that change. Despite that demand, the state’s farmers are having a harder time certifying their livestock as such.