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Darren and Julia Quenault are handing back the organic status of their Jersey farm after nine years. Photograph: Stuart Abraham

Darren and Julia Quenault took their first delivery of non-organic cattle feed a few weeks ago. After nine years of organic dairy farming, they decided to convert back to conventional, and give up their organic status, at the end of last year.

The reason was simple. Cattle feed costs were excruciatingly expensive and we just couldnt absorb them, says Julia. Were saving 1,800 a month. We couldnt have continued, we would have had to put up prices significantly, and we didnt feel we could burden consumers with an extra 12% on the price of milk.

The Quenaults are not alone. Even as demand for organic food remains high, the farmers producing it are falling by the wayside. And the results of their transition might cause anyone else considering it to think hard. Since they made the switch almost eight weeks ago, sales of the milk, cheese, cream and ice cream produced by the couple, their 60 Jersey cows and 10 staff (including their son) have held up.

And yet organic remains a powerful brand. So what are farmers like the Quenaults to conclude? Julia says how important their organic status was to their customers remains an open question, but that many local people are aware of problems with conventional farms. Chief among these is the high level of nitrates in the water supply, which has been linked to the intensive use of fertilisers on potatoes.

There have been surveys about what matters to consumers. Is it food produced locally, animal welfare, the environment or price? she says. Organic standards mean farmers are forbidden from using chemical herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers, and the use of medicines such as antibiotics on animals is controlled. Lower yields and higher costs are offset by a combination of the produces retail price premium, and subsidies paid to farmers to reward their environmental stewardship and protection of wildlife.

Organic was an extra selling point for us, but now that were established, we hope it wont matter too much. Organic is a really hard thing to explain. It means a lot of things, and you cant sum it up in a few soundbites. We believe in the organic ethos, but it was an extra niche aspect for us. There are lots of reasons why people buy our milk.

The Quenaults farm was certified by one of the main British certification bodies, Organic Farmers and Growers, but differences in Jerseys subsidy regime mean their situation is different from that on English, Welsh and Scottish farms. After a period when they were threatened with the prospect of no subsidies whatsoever, the Jersey government offered an amount equivalent to that paid in England. We asked for more because Jersey is one of the most expensive places to produce food, Julia says. It was frustrating more than anything I think they have been short-sighted. There is now just one organic milk producer left in Jersey.

Although the Quenaults decision was specific to conditions in Jersey, they represent a wider trend. UK government figures show that while organic food sales have bounced back from the low that followed the 2008/9 financial crash, the amount of land being farmed organically in Britain continues to shrink. In 2013, the last year for which data are available, land in the process of being converted to organic fell by 24%, with fully organic land falling by 3.9%. The number of producers and processors of organic food fell for the fifth year in a row, by 6.4%, and the number of organic sheep, pigs and cattle also fell.

At the end of last year, four trustees resigned from the Soil Association, the campaigning charity and biggest certification body, and launched a public attack on the organisations direction, accusing it of failing to champion the producers and growers it is meant to represent. Last month a report by the European Environment Agency highlighted huge disparities between countries and the fact that British organic farming has stalled: while 3.3% of land is farmed organically in the UK, the same figure as in 2000, countries such as Austria and Spain have seen sharp rises (to 18.5% and 7.5%), while the number of UK farmers and certified processors making organic food products stands at 6,072, down from 7,567 in 2009.

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INDORE: City-based social worker Padmashree Janak Palta and industrialists Ambrish Kela and Arun Dike have joined hands to promote healthy living. Every Sunday, they provide organic farmers a platform to interact with people of Indore and educate them about wholesome qualities of organic food under an organization named Jaivik Setu at Bicholi Mardana.

"The objective is to promote organic food so as to flush out harmful chemicals from our day-to-day lives," said Janak Palta. "The effort is a step to make people aware of its benefits and try to inculcate healthy eating habits," said Ambrish Kela adding, "We are trying to bring organic farmers, who have been working for the past many years in the field, in the forefront. They get a platform where they can directly sell their products to consumers, what is more people get a chance to interact with farmers themselves".

Many Indoreans turn up to check out organic vegetables and fruits. "We don't want to commercialize it much; we are trying to market it as a socializing event. A solar cafe has been set up at the farm where breakfast, lunch and snacks are served," said Kela.

As many as 300 people have participated in the programme so far.

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Vancouver mom Caitlin Adam wants the best for her children and worries that conventional produce may contain pesticides or Genetically Modified Organisms that she can avoid by buying organic.

If I was only feeding myself and my husband, I probably wouldnt go to so much effort. But for my kids I feel its important, and Im kind of grossed out by the concept of GMOs, she said. Im not a fanatic about it, but I find it unsettling that we dont really know what the repercussions will be from all the GMO ingredients in our food.

Organic certification typically prohibits the use GMO seeds by farmers and GMO ingredients by processors.

The market for organic foods has passed $3.5 billion in Canada more than tripling since 2006 and B.C. is by far the strongest market in Canada, according to the Canadian Organic Trade Association.

British Columbians are about twice as likely to buy at least some organic foods as they are to buy none, a market trend led by families with young children.

At least two-thirds of British Columbians buy organic food in any given week, the most of any province.

Adam, mother to Theo, almost a year old, and Amalia, 4, usually buys organic fruits when they are out of season and from remote locales to avoid pesticide contamination.

Strawberries, when they are in season and local, I dont worry about organic because I can ask the farmer if they are sprayed and I trust them, she said. But out-of-season fruit from the United States ... I feel more comfortable when they are organic and GMO-free.

Adam became an organic consumer nearly 20 years ago when her parents made the switch to a vegetarian diet.

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