The US organic industry has had very high feed grain prices in recent years, making it tough for the organic livestock guys. As conventional prices in the US dropped, organic producers have been reluctant to drop prices, and the organic livestock industry has found imports to be cost competitive. A high US $ helps this, too. So does the fact that shipping costs to the US east coast is probably less via ship from abroad than by truck or rail from the midwest. The conventional industry has dealt with grain imports to the US east coast as well.
My wife's family farms organicly, and have since the 80's. They have been complaining about this for about a year, and how the border should be closed, etc.- never mind they've made most of their profit exporting beans to Japan for the past 25 years. They get quiet in a hurry when you bring that up...
Big food and large corporations are now part of the organic world. ANd as we all know, when that happens us producers need to be more "competitive". It will be interesting to see where all this goes.
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