Source: Robert Arnason, Producer.com, November 19, 2018
Organic is back.
After a period of sluggish growth and a decline in the number of producers in the early 2010s, organic farming is expanding in Western Canada.
Certified organic acres on the Prairies reached 1.824 million in 2017, up 29 percent from 1.4 million acres in 2015. The number of organic producers hit 1,605 in 2017, a jump of 25 percent from 1,280 producers in 2014.
The numbers come from the Prairie Organic Grain Initiative (POGI), a western Canadian partnership of organic groups, which has a mandate to boost the quantity of quality of organic grains in Western Canada.
