Growers are responding to the specialty food demand. The USDA Organics Survey looks at how many acres are currently “organic” approved, exempted, or in the transition phase to become organic. The survey finds there are 14,093 current certified or exempted organic farms in the U.S. with 3,670, 560 total organic acres in production with California in the lead. There are also thousands of acres in some phase of the three-year transition process.
Today, Big Food is behind, says Walter, but they will catch up.
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