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Genesis of the USDA’s National Organic Program

How the Federal Government came to regulate the organic industry
My previous column on the history of organic agriculture wrapped up with a look at the burgeoning national market that emerged during the 1980’s. Counterculture back-to-the-landers and die-hard traditionalist farmers were raising crops and livestock without agro-chemicals and growing numbers of consumers were eager to [...]

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