Oakhurst Dairy and Monsanto Corp. had been expected to settle their differences in a federal courtroom earlier this month, but as this issue went to press, it appeared they were instead working on an out-of-court settlement.
Monsanto, a giant agri-chemical company from St Louis, was asking that Oakhurst, of Portland, Maine, be required to curtail its label statement regarding artificial growth hormones. Monsanto is the manufacturer of rBGH.