Organics organization plows ahead

A coalition of organic food producers is scrambling to fill the void left when the Nevada Department of Agriculture on June 3 elected to stop its organic certification program.The creation of Basin and Range Organics (BARO) was announced last week. A general meeting was held July 24 with teleconferencing statewide to keep those in the industry informed.“The industry benefited as a whole when the state had organic certification program,” said Rob Holley, the livestock advisor on the BARO adv