Organic milk, eggs or chicken may have come from factory-farmed animals. A long-delayed rule was supposed to change that. Now it’s up to Trump’s USDA.

Formal announcement of the delay is slated to publish in the Register on November 14—the same day Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was expected to issue a final decision on the rule.

Update 11/9/2017, 4:49 p.m., EST: As of Thursday morning, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has again delayed the effective date of the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices final rule, published in the Federal Register on January 19, 2017, until May 14, 2018.

These days, it’s fair to say that the organic industry is fraught from one end of the supply chain to the other. Recent scandals over sham organic imports due to lax oversight, and the battles over “hydrorganics” join ongoing controversies about the relative food safety, nutritive, and environmental benefits of agricultural products produced under the National Organic Program (NOP). If you’ve caught wind of reports that the organic milk, eggs or chicken you’ve bought may have come from domestic factory-farmed cows and chickens, it’s reasonable to question the value of buying foods bearing the USDA organic seal at all. Especially when you’re paying about twice the cost of nonorganic.

What’s been drowned out of the organic news, though, is how a coalition of organic stakeholders—a veritable army of unlikely collaborators—recently cried “foul” on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for blocking new organic animal welfare rules set to go into effect this year. Citing harm to organic farmers, certifiers, retailers, animal welfare advocates and consumers, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) sued the USDA in September.

Its demands? Enact transparent, consistent, and uniform standards of care for livestock and poultry to bring USDA organic into line with its stated mission: “Organic integrity from farm to table, consumers trust the organic label.”

With every retailer from Walmart and Albertson’s to mom-and-pop stores embracing organic foods to meet surging consumer demand, everything is on the line for the $43 billion organic food industry. And it all hinges on our trust in a little green-and-white seal.