Rodale Enlists Cargill in Unlikely Alliance to Increase Organic Farmland
Related Rodale Institute—one of America’s most renowned organic institutes—announced today it will help transition more than 50,000 acres of farmland to organic production by forming an unlikely alliance with Cargill, the largest privately owned agribusiness company in the country, and chicken producer Bell & Evans. The project is called the U.S. Organic Grain Initiative, and it’s designed to help more farmers adopt organic practices and fill a gap in domestic organic animal feed. While organic product sales have more than doubled over the past decade to hit $55 billion in 2019, certi...
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