Articles by Jim Webster

The number of farms and ranches in the United States resumed their long-term declining trend between 2007 and 2012 but the pace of loss of farmland slowed dramatically, the 2012 Census of Agriculture revealed today

But it also gives USDA new authority to buy dairy products – presumably cheese and milk powder – in consumer-ready packages to donate to food banks

Imminent changes in agricultural chemical regulation by the European Union could choke off imports of more than $4 billion worth of already-reduced U.S. sales of soybeans, grains, nuts and fruits

For more than a half century, the world’s most developed countries have pursued trade policies designed to boost their economies by removing trade barriers and trade-distorting practices

Margin insurance for dairy farmers without a mechanism to check overproduction risks a repeat of conditions in the early 1980s when USDA spent billions of dollars to support milk prices, says the chairman of the National Milk Producers Federation

The DFA Board has approved the merger and the Dairylea board presented it endorsement of the merger to the co-op’s annual meeting Tuesday. The member vote is scheduled for February.

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it is withdrawing prior approval for a number of arsenic-containing compounds that once were used as additives in feed for chickens, turkeys and hogs

U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson today rejected a request by U.S. and Canadian meat packers and livestock growers for an injunction

The nominations of Krysta Harden to be deputy secretary of agriculture and Robert Bonnie to be encountered no opposition yesterday at a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing and have no apparent obstacles to Senate confirmation

The United States and the European Union may be poles apart on agricultural biotechnology and the protection of “geographical indications,” or GIs, for unique foods, but negotiators may be able to find a way to compromise on those and other issues, according to experts at a forum on the Trans-Atlan