Jim Webster

After Ðalmost five years of intensive litigationÐ and millions of pages of documents, lawyers for Dairy Farmers of America and a group of northeastern U.S. dairy farmers have agreed to settle a class action antitrust suit for $50 million, to be paid by DFA and an affi

After five rounds of negotiations on a trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union, 0to be honest, there has not been a lot of progress,0 says Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.

The European Union (EU) is set to decide whether to grant Denmark exclusive use of the name 0Havarti0 within its member states. It0s just the latest attempt by a European state to protect food product names through geographical indication (GI) rules that many, i

Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who combined southern charm and steely determination to become one of the most effective lawmakers of his generation, fought off a tea party rebellion Tuesday to win the Republican nomination to serve a seventh term, defeating 41-year-old S

Whether government has the authority to require food manufacturers to label products to disclose the presence of ingredients produced with biotechnology is again before the federal courts.

Health activists at the National Soda Summit in Washington last week highlighted legislative efforts to limit the consumption of beverages that contain sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

Attorney General Eric Holder will leave office after six years with an antitrust record that disappointed many who thought that he would move more vigorously to arrest further concentration in the food processing and farm input industries.

The decline in population in America’s rural areas, notably the Great Plains, appears to be accelerating, according to a report by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

The United States and European Union opened talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) nearly a year ago, deeply conflicted over their respective approaches to food safety, agricultural biotechnology and the names of certain foods.

Japan is planning to buy an extra 7,000 metric tons of butter for commercial use this year, over and above its commitments under international trade treaties, to stabilize prices amid a domestic shortage of the dairy product, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) said.