When Kip Bichsel of Love Farm Organics in Forest Grove, Oregon started growing organic vegetables over a decade ago, there was almost no organic seed in the market. Availability has improved every ...

NORTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ferry-Morse, one of the leading and oldest gardening seed brands in the United States, part of the Central Garden & Pet Company portfolio (NASDAQ: CENT) (NASDAQ: CENTA) ...

While harvest time can pull a lot of time, attention and effort towards getting crops harvested and handled, it is still a ...

Twenty-two years ago, when the US Department of Agriculture finalized the standards for its National Organic Program, produce breeders went back to the drawing board. There was little organically ...

Over the years, the seed business has consolidated in a few corporate hands. In fact, Monsanto, Syngenta, and DuPont collectively control 53 percent of the global commercial seed market, double the ...

As consumer demand for organic cotton soars, so does skepticism over the sustainability of the sector. The response must not be to retreat from organic cotton, but to invest more in supporting farmers ...

NAPLES, New York (AP) — A multimillion-dollar organic seed company has surprised its supporters by announcing it will end sales and give hundreds of varieties away, declaring “we can no longer ...

Bernard Saul agreed Tuesday to forfeit a home and 438 acres of farmland in Buhl that were bought with added profits he made selling conventional alfalfa seed as organic. Stephen Reiss Twin Falls Times ...