date:Oct 30, 2013
ion acres. Over this same period, certified organic pasture grew even faster, climbing to 2.3 million acres in 2011 from fewer than 500,000 in 1997.
In Growth patterns in the U.S. organic industry, Catherine Greene, a senior economist with the E.R.S., said the slowdown for the organic industry during the recession has been reversed.
Certified cropland and pasture dipped between 2008 and 2010 as sluggish growth in consumer demand during the recession dampened the short-term outlook for organic