by Mark Kastel | Apr 3, 2024 | OrganicEye Posts
Susan Truscott proudly displaying an article about her farm in the Edible East Bay magazine. When I asked Susan Truscott, longtime operator of Cloverfield Organic Farm in El Sobrante, California, for permission to share her story, she responded without hesitation:... 
by Mark Kastel | Mar 12, 2024 | OrganicEye Posts
Oregon Tilth’s certification of livestock factories, such as this one in Chase, Kansas, has resulted in many family farmers being forced out of the market. Industry Watchdog Files Formal Legal Complaint Against Oregon Tilth, Inc. LA FARGE, WIS. — After Congress passed... 
by Mark Kastel | Mar 11, 2024 | News Posts
The late Hakan Bahçeci, who has been incriminated in a fraudulent scheme involving the organic industry A Turkish businessman and his associates orchestrated an elaborate scheme to sell fraudulent organic grain in the US market through a web of companies, leading to... 
by Mark Kastel | Mar 1, 2024 | OrganicEye Posts
LA FARGE, WIS. — Last fall an Oregon organic hazelnut farmer filed a federal lawsuit against the USDA alleging the agency’s complacency in allowing massive imports that do not meet the federal statutory requirement that all certified farms be inspected on an annual... 
by Mark Kastel | Feb 26, 2024 | OrganicEye Posts
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.” This year is the 20th anniversary of OrganicEye’s founder and executive director, Mark Kastel’s, career shift to doing corporate and governmental watchdog work in defense of the...