Top 5 - Organic News to Help You Grow #165

1. OFRF New Digital Toolkit for Climate Advocacy

The campaign, A Path to Resilience, launched with the hashtag #OrganicforClimate. It features a series of posts across social media presenting farmer stories, educational content, and compelling data points.    Read More

2. Advancing Eco Agriculture Announces Webinar

In a webinar for organic growers on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, John Kempf, agronomist and founder of AEA, will describe the environmental conditions and nutritional imbalances that allow these bacterial populations to proliferate inside the plant’s vascular tissue.    Register Here

3. Driscoll’s Launches Series to Culminate on Mother’s Day

Seeking to connect with the matriarchs of consumption on a resonant level, Driscoll’s launched a special content series that put several new faces to the berry behemoth’s brand by highlighting Driscoll’s moms. As retailers begin Mother's Day promotions—and understand the importance of social media in bringing shoppers into stores—the new marketing campaign is sure to up foot traffic in the berry category.    Read More

4. Coachella Expecting Grapes in Early May

The California table grape season is expected to get going about 10 days earlier than last year with the first grapes slated to be harvested around May 5.  “Last year we started May 16 or 17, but that was an aberration,” said George Tudor, principal owner of Tudor Ranch Inc., based in Mecca, CA. “We had a very cool spring last year. This year has been normal.”     Read More

5. Grimmway to Ship New Crop Dry Onions & Sweet Corn

Next week Cal-Organic Farms, the nation’s largest producer of organic vegetables, will start shipping freshly-harvested, new crop yellow, red and white onions from their facility in Lamont, CA.  A division of Grimmway Farms, Cal-Organic starts its annual onion harvest in Coachella Valley before transitioning to Kern County in late spring and Cuyama Valley in late summer.    Read More