Tagged: organic

Harvest Public Media
1:59 am
Mon December 24, 2012

How Much Is Organic Certification Worth?

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson / Harvest Public Media
Schnuck’s produce manager Dave Guthrie unpacks potatoes in the grocery’s Columbia, Mo., store produce department.

The organic farming industry is booming. Since the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its federal organic certification program in 2002, the number of organic farms has more than doubled.

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