A bill passed by the Senate late Thursday will require food manufacturers to list products produced from genetically modified seeds, crops and ingredients. Those labels can include printed labels, QR digital codes, texts or a link to a website, telling consumers the product has GMOs.

Questions have risen regarding the value of starch versus digestibility of the corn plant in northern growing environments. This is especially important when looking at longer season hybrids and these hybrids’ inability to put on more starch prior to harvest or killing frost.

In July 2015, Poly-C Farms put the first group of calves in their new calf barn. Since then, their calves have been less stressed, healthier and have grown better than they did in the hutches.

The Senate approved a bill establishing a national labeling system for foods produced with technology. With 2017 enrollment underway, the National Milk Producers Federation introduced new Margin Protection Program for Dairy decision tools. The Animal Agriculture Alliance identified industry improvements related to animal care and antibiotic use. This and other U.S. dairy policy news can be found here.

This month’s VAS DC305 tip is a module that estimates the value of each cow in the herd relative to an average fresh heifer.

After a historic, decade-long run-up in agricultural land values, supply and demand might be reaching an equilibrium, according to Farmers National Company (FNC), one of the nation’s largest agricultural landowner services company.

Today’s consumer is more and more interested in knowing about their food. That may include where it came from, something about the farmer or processor that produced it, specific production practices along the way, nutritional composition, etc. More than that though, they have moved beyond wanting the story of food, they want a biography.

This Dairy Regional Recap updates a New York farm labor lawsuit, an Indiana bovine tuberculosis investigation, Arizona’s changing milk marketing landscape and a plant-based argument in an Idaho "ag-gag" lawsuit. This and other U.S. region-by-region dairy news can be found here.

With U.S. milk processing capacity stretched to its limit in many parts of the country, producers of milk powder are bringing significant new capacity online with an eye toward the future, according to a new research report from CoBank.