Organic-milk sales have cooled as the shoppers who drove demand move on to newer alternatives, forcing dairy producers to cut capacity or turn the milk into other products.

In the healthy food and drinks realm, organic milk is a buzzword that has gained quite a traction in the last few years. A break from the usual industrial-produced milk, it is supposed to follow ...

Interview Highlights On the difference between grocery-store organic milk and organic milk from small farms We tested them chemically, and you can see from the results how much time a cow has been ...

No illnesses have been reported, however. Under the recall, Organic Pastures Dairy brand Grade-A raw milk with the OCT 24 code date is being immediately removed from retail shelves.

For milk to be labeled organic, the USDA says that cows must be raised on pesticide-free feed, without hormones. As organic mega-dairies sprout up, small-dairy farmers say some so-called "organic ...

However, the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in the organic milk was 2.28-to-1, while the ratio was 5.77-to-1 in the regular milk. Typical U.S. diets range from a 10-to-1 to a 15-to-1 ratio of omega-6 to ...

The reason organic milk is healthier comes down to its ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids, which is lower than in regular milk. A diet containing too many omega-6 fatty acids and not enough ...

Report Supports Organic Produce, but Not Milk By Andrea Petersen Updated Oct. 22, 2012 5:39 pm ET Share ...

Interestingly, in one region, organic and conventional milk samples showed similar, omega-3 rich fat profiles: northern California’s Humboldt County. There, the researchers say, “both types of ...

That's definitely not to say that conventional milk has an unhealthy ratio—5.8:1 is way lower than those standard ones—but the organic one is closer to that ideal ratio mentioned by researchers.

He chose to go organic. And this February, with organic milk selling for a high of $39.78 per hundredweight (CWT) compared to $13.64 CWT for conventional milk, Kinstetter is glad he made that choice.