A federal appeals court has affirmed the USDA’s policy of certifying hydroponic crop growers as “organic” even though the practice doesn’t improve soil fertility. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

The question of whether hydroponic production can be certified as organic now rests with a panel of federal appeals court judges, who seemed to be inclined to affirm a lower court decision allowing ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. – Can a tomato grown in a nutrient solution instead of dirt be called “organic”? Some purists don’t think so. The National Organic Standards Board, which advises the U.S. Department of ...

Produce grown without soil can continue to be organically certified, a federal judge has ruled, deferring to USDA’s interpretation of the Organic Foods Production Act. The OFPA “does not speak ...

Arguments that Congress intended to ban hydroponically grown crops from organic certification did not appear to persuade a judge overseeing a legal dispute over what foods can be labeled “organic.” ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- The global organic farming market is expected to hit $103 billion dollars this year, up 8% from last year. In the U.S., part of the growth is due to high-tech indoor farming.

A federal judge in California last March found in favor of the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture’s ruling that hydroponics can be labeled as USDA Organic foods. The Center for Food Safety and several ...

1 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA 2 Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA Hydroponic ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 26, 2021) Certified organic, soil-based growers were dealt a blow on March 22 when a U.S. District Court in San Francisco ruled that soil-less hydroponic growing operations ...

The USDA is urging a federal appeals court to reject arguments that organic crops must be grown in soil and never with hydroponic production methods. Critics claim that organic certification should be ...