Nevada stakeholders create new organic certification program

RENO — A group of Nevada businesses are joining forces to form their own organic certification program in the wake of the state ending its certification. The new, privately-run program, Basin and Range Organics, will be financially operated by the Healthy Communities Coalition nonprofit, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. The Nevada Department of Agriculture announced last month that it will end its organic certification program, effective June 2016. It had been operating at an annual $70,000