[Link] Organic food sales jump nearly 13% to record high in 2020
U.S. organic product sales climbed 12.4% in 2020, breaking the $60 billion mark for the first time and more than doubling the previous year’s growth…
Day: June 1, 2021
[Link] Got Weeds? Perhaps Pigs Can Help
Long before chemical herbicides were commonplace, some farmers let pigs loose in fallow fields, allowing them to dig up the roots of weeds and fertili…
[Link] Peecycling for Pasture Health
Diverting urine away from municipal wastewater treatment plants and recycling the nutrient-rich liquid to make crop fertilizer would result in multipl…
[Link] Promising Alternatives To Antibiotic Fire Blight Control
The phase-out of antibiotic use in organic orchards has been anticipated by growers and researchers for quite some time, and researchers throughout th…
