Source: AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 6/7/18


Midwestern fruit and vegetable farmers are more likely than those of California and the Northeast to give up federal organic certification. That's the bottom line of a new Purdue University study. Despite booming demand, organic farm numbers declined from 14,540 in 2008 to 12,818 in 2015 — the latest numbers used in the study. Some of that was due to consolidation of small and medium farms into larger operations; but some simply left the program.

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