The Swiftly Growing Organic Market

The organic berry sector isn’t the only part of the produce industry that uses organic Market News reports. Retailers track shipping point prices for many commodities, just as...

By Melissa Reeves and Terry Long, AMS Market News
August 22, 2016
2 minute read

The organic berry sector isn’t the only part of the produce industry that uses organic Market News reports. Retailers track shipping point prices for many commodities, just as restaurateurs look for the availability of fruits and vegetables in the wholesale market reports. Small growers often use the ‘Local and Organic’ report as a benchmark for setting prices on their crops. These are just a few of the many ways the organic industry can benefit from Market News information.

Links to more information
Here are a number of links to a wealth of information related to this article, as well as various other U.S. Department of Agriculture sites and services.

U.S. Department of Agriculture
Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System – a partnership with Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Librar https://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/homepage.do

Agricultural Marketing Service
www.ams.usda.gov – go to ‘Organic Certification’

AMS Market News
www.marketnews.usda.gov

Economic Research Service
www.ers.usda.gov – go to ‘Organic Agriculture’

ERS State Fact Sheets
(includes organic data) by state https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/state-fact-sheets/.aspx

Find It Here
Market information for both conventional and organic produce exists on the Market News Portal at www.marketnews.usda.gov/mnp/fv-home (see sidebar for other USDA-related website links and information). To accommodate the needs of growers, buyers, and sellers of organic produce, Market News also developed several reports specific to the organic industry. This includes the daily “National Fruit and Vegetable Organic Summary” and the weekly “National Retail Report: Local and Organic.”

The Market News staff is currently working to increase coverage of additional commodities at more levels, with a focus on local and regional food systems in the near future. As the organic produce sector continues to grow, so will Market News’ ability to provide the specialty crops industry with accurate and timely information. 

 

Melissa Reeves joined the Specialty Crops Market News team in Los Angeles in 2007. She was later assigned to Phoenix, Arizona. She is now at the Fresno, California office where she covers California table grapes, Mexico and California avocados, and California cherries. Terry Long joined Market News in 1976 as a reporter in Philadelphia. He worked at both wholesale and shipping point locations across the country, and trained new reporters. He became Director of what is now Specialty Crops Market News, in 1993. He is also chair of the Market Information Organization of the Americas, a network of institutions that track markets for agricultural products throughout the hemisphere.

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