Weekly Top 5: Organic News You Need to Know #57

How a Food Packaging Company is Changing the Industry for the Better

Sambrailo Packaging—a 94 year old family-owned agriculture packaging company based out of Watsonville, California—pioneered the very first plastic clamshell used in the berry industry.

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Any Talk About Regenerative Agriculture Must Involve Policy: Clif Bar Exec

“I wish we had as much energy around a regenerative, climate-smart Farm Bill as we did around the marketing of regenerative, because now is the time to craft a Farm Bill that could actually improve climate and the quality of our farming,” says Clif Bar’s director of agriculture.

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New Study: Organic Farming Reduces Nitrogen Pollution

A new study has found that organic farming is much more efficient at recycling nitrogen than conventional farming, helping reduce global nitrogen pollution, New Hope reports.

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Organic Produce Exporters Explore Global Opportunities

“Vietnamese organic products are competitively priced and have high quality but we need government agencies to connect us and organise promotions to get more international customers,” Nguyen Lam Vien, chairman and CEO of Vinamit Joint Stock Company, told Nguoi Lao Dong (Labourers) newspaper.

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Stockton is Rebranding - Changes Name to STK

Stockton, the innovative Israel – based leader in bio-ag technology for sustainable crop protection and aquaculture, is announcing a company name change. The new name is STK , which reflects the company’s transition from its legacy business in generic agrochemicals to its current strategy and R & D leadership in bio-ag technology and botanical-based solutions (BBS), such as its flagship product Timorex Gold® biofungicide.

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"Fraudulent organic imports are threatening the integrity of the USDA organic seal. I am working with my colleagues to garner support for investing in USDA’s National Organic Program so the Department is better able to respond to these fraudulent imports."

Congressman Jimmy Panetta