Organic Pricing Data: Where to Find It and What New Research Reveals about Access

What resources report on organic pricing and what are the gaps in this data?

Public price and sales reports have helped level the playing field between buyers and sellers of all sizes. As agricultural information becomes increasingly privatized and markets more concentrated, that public data is more important than ever for a fair, stable organic sector. Join researcher Katie Butterfield (UC Davis), as she shares findings from her new peer-reviewed article, Improving USDA’s Public Price and Volume Data for an Equitable Organic Food Value Chain, along with the broader work behind it.

Here’s what to expect:

– Where to access organic pricing data as a farmer.

– What the research found: interviews and surveys with organic producers, processors, distributors, and retailers about how price and volume data can better serve them.

– Why access matters: many farmers don’t have the resources to purchase private data sources, and improving public data access, especially smaller markets, is one of the clearest ways to close that gap.

This session is for transitioning and organic farmers, buyers, supply chain actors, researchers, and advocates who want to understand what’s happening to organic acreage and pricing transparency and how better data can support a more equitable organic value chain.

This event is supported through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). TOPP is a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP).

Details

Date: September 21, 2026 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EST

Location:
Virtual, via Zoom

Cost: FREE

Registration

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