date:May 25, 2016
The booming U.S. organic industry posted new records in 2015, with total organic food product sales reaching $39.7 billion, up 11% from the previous year, according to the Organic Trade Associations 2016 Organic Industry Survey. This far surpassed the overall food markets growth rate of 3%. Nearly 5% of all food sold in the United States is organic.
Organic produce retained its longstanding spot as the largest of all the organic categories with sales of $14.4 billion, up 10.6%. Produce has alwa