date:May 20, 2016
The U.S. organic industry posted new records in 2015 with total organic product sales hitting a new benchmark of $43.3 billion, up 11 percent from the previous year's record level and far outstripping the overall food market's growth rate of 3 percent, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Organic Trade Association's (OTA) 2016 Organic Industry Survey.
The industry posted its largest annual dollar gain in 2015, adding $4.2 billion in sales, up from the $3.9 billion in new sales recorded in 20