Wine is a category on the move, and wellness is playing a big part. According to the Organic Trade Association, sales of organic wine hit $80 million in 2005, and are expected to grow at 17% a year through next year. Red wine in particular has...
Over the course of 20 years, Applegate Farms has gone from supplying a handful of small natural food stores to selling its deli products to conventional supermarkets and even a few Wal-Marts. The surging demand for natural and organic deli...
Score one for consumer choice: The Federal Trade Commission has declined to go after dairy processors who advertise their milk as hormone-free. Monsanto Co., which makes the synthetic hormone rBST, or recombinant bovine somatotropin, has been...
Wal-Mart Stores will donate $550,000 toward recovery efforts associated with the floods in the Midwest and $50,000 worth of merchandise, it announced yesterday.
In a clarifying news release issued last night, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced stringent new operating conditions for Aurora Organic Dairy facilities in Colorado and Texas after an extensive review of the nation’s top private...
The Produce for Better Health Foundation and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have teamed up to promote the consumption of fruits and vegetables during back-to-school season.
Stemilt Growers has decided to convert 100% of its stone fruit trees to organic farming practices, according to published reports and, in the meantime, has created a new label that highlights the fruits’ transitional status.
Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co. is conducting a search for the South’s best amateur cooks with its first Taste of the South Recipe Contest that kicked off yesterday.