Sentences with phrase «organic farmers representing»

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Committee members represent organic stakeholders, including farmers, processors, retailers, consumers and accredited certifying agencies.

«The USDA is always trying to evolve its standards, but, as an organic dairy farmer, I know this model represents an integrated sustainable organic farming system.

Australian Organic represents both organic and biodynamic (a specific form of organic production) farmers, and hence the broader term «biological farmers» was chosen as the group's name to promote a simple message that such farmers were using natural methods, not synthetic or unnatural methods, to produce their foods for consumers.

FVIAC members represent the full breadth of the produce industry, including fruit and vegetable growers, shippers, wholesalers and distributors, retailers and restauranteurs, industry trade associations, importers and exporters, processors, foodservice suppliers, brokers, state departments of agriculture, farmers markets and food hubs, and the organic sector.

USDA's recent initiatives will bring more opportunity to farmers and handlers across the country, and they represent additional elements of solid federal support for the growth of the organic sector.

Supporting the Organic Trade Association in the suit, as groups harmed by this protracted government inaction, are organizations representing organic livestock farmers, organic certification agencies, and organic retailers and consumers.

Organic Valley is America's largest cooperative of organic farmers, representing approximately 1,800 farmers in 36 states.

These groups spanned the full political and geographic spectrum, representing organic farmers, conventional ranchers, property rights activists and concerned consumers.

Liesl focuses on researching, developing, and promoting the opportunities for farmers that organic represents.

California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) is the first major agricultural organization to support Assemblyman Mark Leno's new industrial hemp bill based on the huge economic potential represented by the production of organic hemp in California.

Denise O'Brien: organic farmer, founder of Women, Food, and Agriculture Network (WFAN); represented the interests of women in agriculture at the World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995; organized a rural women's workshop for the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, Italy; received nearly a half million votes in her 2006 bid to become Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture.