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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2017
Organic: ‘We’re all in this together. People, planet and profi t.’
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Price check: organic vs. conventional
Non-discount prices for organic foods versus their conventional
counterparts at select Portland-area groceries.
tions itself to join the organic
marketplace.
Colfer, with experience
in agronomy, pest control
and food safety, was working
for Earthbound Farm, which
itself had grown from a small
startup farm to a national
organic producer, when Wil-
bur-Ellis came calling.
Wilbur-Ellis has been
around nearly 100 years, and
provides fertilizers, pesticides,
seed and crop monitoring ser-
vices to farmers in the West
and into the central states.
Growers began asking Wil-
bur-Ellis reps about organics,
and the company decided it
didn’t want to get left behind,
Colfer said.
“We didn’t want to tell our
growers we didn’t know,” she
said.
She was brought on board
to help growers answer those
questions and become organic
producers. She offers options
and advice on methods,
employing what she calls a
whole systems approach.
“We want to help these
growers learn that you’re
not going to spray your way
out of a problem,” she said.
“You have to address the soil,
and build soil health fi rst and
foremost.”
Other things follow, like
improving pollinator habitat
by planting native, perennial
fl owering plants and faster
growing annuals in strategic
areas.
Growers who follow a
whole systems approach, no
matter their size, advance
organics, she said.
“For me, I look at the
greater good,” Colfer said.
“If we can keep more syn-
thetic pesticides and fertilizers
out of the environment, it’s a
win-win for everyone. Build-
ing soil health, I think, crosses
over all lines.”
And having organic prod-
ucts in larger marketplaces,
she said, opens opportuni-
ties for consumers who might
not otherwise be able to buy
organics.
“We’re all in this together,”
Colfer said. “People, planet
and profi t. All three of those
have to be in place for it to be
sustainable.”
of course. Producers disagree
over the proposed organic
checkoff, for example, and
whether a “transitioning to
organic” label is proper for
growers who are headed that
way but aren’t yet certifi ed.
And although organic
product sales grew 11 percent
to reach $43.3 billion in 2015,
and have undoubtedly topped
that in the interim, the number
of organic farmers has actually
dropped. Organic products
now make up nearly 5 percent
of U.S. food sales, but organic
acreage is less than 1 percent
of U.S. cropland, according to
the Organic Trade Association.
It appears millennials, the
18 to 34 age group, account
for more than half of organic
purchases. That means a lot
of people still aren’t con-
vinced they should pay more
for something that often looks
and tastes the same as conven-
tional vegetables, fruit, grains
and meat.
“It would be shortsighted if
we strive only to fi ll the shop-
ping baskets of millennials
and be happy at that,” warned
Drew Katz, who coordinates
farm transitions for Oregon
Tilth, an organic certifi cation
group.
But it’s creeping bigness
that seemed to bother many of
the 1,100 growers, processors
and activists who attended
the three-day Organicology
conference and trade show in
Portland earlier this month.
One of the panel discussions
was even titled, “Challenging
the Empire: Forming a Rebel
Alliance.”
The rebels might have
reason to worry. Phil How-
ard, a Michigan State Univer-
sity professor, has tracked the
acquisitions of organic oper-
ations by the biggest “Death-
stars” in America’s food
system.
Organic activists can recite
some of them from mem-
ory: General Mills now owns
Annie’s Homegrown and
seven other organic brands.
Coca-Cola owns Odwalla and
Pepsi owns Naked Juice. Kel-
logg owns Morning Star and
Kashi, plus two other brands.
J.M. Smucker bought R.W.
Knudsen, Millstone, Santa
Cruz Organic and Enray. Food
giants Foster Farms, Tyson,
Hormel and Nestle also own
several organic brands.
Costco helped another
company buy 1,200 acres in
Mexico, and will use it to sup-
ply its membership warehouse
stores with organic products.
Wal-Mart barged into
organics 10 years ago, vowing
it would bring cheaper organic
food to the masses. Crit-
ics soon alleged Wal-Mart’s
organics were coming from
factory farms and from China,
with its checkered food safety
and regulatory history.
Food writer Michael Pollan
said the company’s low-price
promise “virtually guarantees
that Wal-Mart’s version of
cheap, industrialized organic
food will not be sustainable in
any meaningful sense of the
word.”
Meanwhile, the Washing-
ton Post reported Feb. 9 that
mass-market retailers now
account for 53 percent of
organic sales and that Whole
Foods, one of the pioneering
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Values-based
The Cornucopia Institute,
organic consultant who mod-
erated the “Empire” panel dis- based in Wisconsin, has served
cussion at Organicology, said as a watchdog on organic
it’s not the soul of the industry issues, battling the USDA, the
he’s worried about, but rather Organic Trade Association and
corporations such as Wal-Mart
its integrity.
“My point was that corpo- when it believes the spirit or
rations that enter the organic letter of organic guidelines are
violated.
sector
through
But Mark Kas-
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organic enterprises
senior farm policy
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“The issues are
practiced organic
not corporate scale,
production
and
they are about cor-
handling from the
Gina
porate ethics,” he
beginning,” he said
Colfer
said. “This is a val-
in an email.
ues-based indus-
Conventional
food corporations generally try. It’s grown to $43 billion
don’t understand what it takes (in sales) because consumers
to become organic, Baker said. wanted an alternative to stan-
They know the organic sector dard practices in growing agri-
is growing and sells at a pre- cultural commodities and in
mium price, but lack organic processing, too.
“If you respect the wishes
production experience and
don’t have a fi rst-hand under- and values of consumers, there
standing of organic standards. is money to be made here and
“The concern is partic- profi t to made here at the farm
ularly acute if the corpora- gate and in the boardroom.”
tions behave as if the rules
‘In this together’
that applied to the companies
Gina Colfer, a key account
they acquired do not apply to
manager with Wilbur-Ellis
them,” Baker said.
While some attending in Salinas, California , is on
Organicology hold tight to the the frontlines as a big, con-
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