To provide even greater scrutiny of commodities imported from countries considered to be high risk for fraud, this notification requires all certifiers in the U.S. to immediately implement additional control measures for their certified operations that directly
import organic corn, soy, edible dry beans, wheat, flax or sunflower from the following countries:
The notification requires all certifiers in the U.S. to immediately implement additional control measures for their certified operations that directly
import organic corn, soy, edible dry beans, wheat, flax or sunflower from:
Not exact matches
But spikes in
imports of
organic corn and soybeans stand out.
Two major topics of interest were 1) high proportion of
organic imports compared to domestically - produced commodities (in the 2016/2017 marketing year, about 78 percent of
organic soy and 41 percent of
organic corn were
imported, per Mercaris data), and 2)-LSB-...]
About 40 percent of
organic corn sold in the U.S. is
imported, and up to 90 percent of the nation's
organic soybean supply is produced in other countries.
Finding that
organic soybeans and
corn imports exhibit strong growth provides further evidence of the needs for transition of domestic acres to
organic production of these commodity crops.