U.S. organic cheese sales grew about 15 percent last year to reach an estimated $570 million, according to a new market report from Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com. The report said the organic cheese segment grew by a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.5 percent between 2012 and 2015, and expects it to “continue to outperform the[…]
More than 60 percent of consumers surveyed said they’re likely to purchase locally sourced food or beverages, according to Technomic. Additionally, 26 percent said they would pay more for these items, and more than half of consumers report eating locally sourced food at least once weekly. – read more – http://bit.ly/2463wXT
WASHINGTON, May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The booming U.S. organic industry posted new records in 2015, with total organic product sales hitting a new benchmark of $43.3 billion, up a robust 11 percent from the previous year’s record level and far outstripping the overall food market’s growth rate of 3 percent, according to the Organic Trade[…]
WASHINGTON, May 4, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today that approximately $11.6 million is available through state departments of agriculture to make organic certification more affordable for organic producers and handlers across the country. “The organic market is booming, with more and more producers taking advantage of[…]