The organic industry, which has long worked closely with USDA, is searching for ways to navigate a shifting regulatory landscape after suffering a series of losses in the Trump administration. Representatives of the Organic Trade Association, the industry's main trade group, said Thursday that its members have shown historically high interest in its fly-in this week, visiting some 160 congressional offices, fueled in part by the uncertainty facing the industry in Washington.The past couple of months have been particularly tough for the association. In March, the Department of Agriculture formally withdrew an organic livestock and poultry welfare rule, and earlier this month it pulled the plug on an organic checkoff effort — both policies that OTA had championed for years.“The industry has been built on a public-private partnership that, in many ways, is strained right now,” Laura Batcha, CEO and executive director of OTA, told reporters at a media briefing on Thursday. “We’re really looking to press ourselves as a private sector to find the places where those frictions create opportunities to move forward.”