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Organic Agriculture

Statistical Review of California Organic Agriculture 2000-2005
(May 2007, pdf, 1Mb). Karen Klonsky and Kurt Richter. This publication quantifies the current size and growth of the organic industry in California in terms of acres, farm gate sales and number of growers statewide and by commodity, commodity group, county, and region, based on California Department of Agriculture registration data from 1999-2005.

AIC ISSUES BRIEFS

Organic Agriculture in California: A Statistical Review (no. 6, 1998, html)
Laura Tourte and Karen Klonsky provide data on organic agriculture in California, drawing from a larger study conducted in collaboration with the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

AIC QUARTERLY ARTICLES
(You may have to browse the Quarterly to find the indicated article.)

Volume 16, No. 4, 2002 (pdf)
Organic agriculture in the 2002 Farm Bill

Volume 14, No. 3, 2000 (pdf)
New Data Shows Trend in Organic Agriculture

PUBLICATIONS (online)

Statistical Review of California Organic Agriculture 2000-2005 (May 2007, pdf, 1Mb). Karen Klonsky and Kurt Richter. This publication quantifies the current size and growth of the organic industry in California in terms of acres, farm gate sales and number of growers statewide and by commodity, commodity group, county, and region, based on California Department of Agriculture registration data from 1999-2005.

Statistical Review of California's Organic Agriculture 1998-2003
(December 2005) (pdf, 572kb)

Statistical Picture of California's Organic Agriculture, 1995-1998 (2002)

Book produced by AIC.
Available in many libraries. Available here for download.

Statistical Review of California's Organic Agriculture, 1992-1995 (1998)
Statistical Picture of California's Organic Agriculture, 1995-1998 (2002)

RELATED LINKS

Cooperative Extension Specialist Karen Klonsky's University of California, Davis, Agricultural and Resource Economics Faculty Webpage

United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, National Organic Program

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