Articles by Jim Webster

European Union agriculture ministers have been meeting this week to complete a plan to distribute some 500 million euros ($565 million) to hard-squeezed dairy and pork producers facing surplus production and collapsing prices.

One of the leaders of a foundation-supported effort to reconcile conflicting views about food and agricultural policy sees an °increasingly powerful kind of anti-GMO fervor arising° in the United States.

Farm Aid, launched by musician Willie Nelson in 1985 to raise funds to help farmers squeezed when the farmland bubble burst, will mark its 30th anniversary Sept. 19 in downtown Chicago with a festival featuring Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews and others&#

Meat and poultry processors earnings reports this month range from gains to losses, depending on the commodity

One of the most distinguished scientists in the public policy sphere is warning that €the increasing vilification of GM foods as a marketing tool by the organic food industry€ may be €the most counterproductive development€ in the effort to increase food production to meet the

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Dean Kleckner, an Iowa farmer who was president of the American Farm Bureau Federation from 1986 until 2000, died June 15 in Wayzata, Minnesota, from complications of Alzheimer s Disease. He was 82.

Pope Francis, in an encyclical letter that appeals to the world?s leaders to take steps to heal the environmental damage caused by human activity and alleviate the likely impacts of climate change, says ?it is right to rejoice? in scientific advances such as robotics and biotec

Nothing short of repeal will fix COOL, critics say