Laura Batcha

CEO/Executive Director

National Press Foundation | Exploring the Future of Food and

Agriculture
Journalist Bootcamp | July 2016

OTA is the leading voice for the

organic trade in the U.S.,
representing over 8,500
businesses across 50 states.
The Organic Trade Association is the
Our members include growers,
LEADING VOICE
shippers, processors, certifiers,
for the organic trade in the U.S., representing
farmers' associations,
8,500 businesses across 50 states.
distributors, importers,
exporters,
consultants,
retailers
Our MEMBERS
include
growers, shippers,
and certifiers,
more.
processors,
farmers' associations,
distributors, importers, exporters, consultants,
OTAs
Board and
of Directors
is
retailers
more.
democratically elected by our
members.
OTAs Board
of Directors is democratically
ELECTED
OTA'sby
mission
is to promote and
our members.
protect ORGANIC with a unifying
voice is
that
serves and
engages
its
OTA's mission
to PROMOTE
and
PROTECT
diverse
from farm
to
ORGANIC
with amembers
unifying voice
that serves
marketplace.
and engages
its diverse members from farm

OTA.com

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nearly

organic product
sales
in 2015

FIVE
%

of ALL FOOD
sold

in the U.S.
is

ORGA
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13%

OF
AL
L

PRODUC
E sold in the
U.S. is

ORGANI
C
ORGANIC
DAIRY
accounted

$6
Billion
for

in sales
OTA.com

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non-food
products
account for

8.2%
of overall
organic
sales

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OTA.com/hotspots

An Organic Hotspot is a cluster of counties with two

important characteristics:
1. they are counties

Where are Organic

Hotspots

with
statistically
high numbers of
organic
operations
(farms and
businesses)

2. they have

neighboring
counties
with
OTA.com/hotspots

OTA.com/hotspots

How does that compare to General

Agriculture Hotspots?

OTA.com/hotspots

From Economic Health to Environmental Health

The mission of The Organic Center is to conduct and

convene credible, evidence-based science on the
environmental and health effects of organic food and
farming and communicate the findings to the public.
Organic-Center.org