Romer Labs, a global food-safety diagnostic company, introduces its new AgraStrip Total Aflatoxin Quantitative WATEX test kit. The new water-based method will allow food, feed and grain producers to test for aflatoxins without using organic solvents, such as methanol, which are expensive, flammable and must be disposed as hazardous waste.

This article was #5 of the Top 25 most well-read articles on www.progressivedairy.com in 2014. It was published in the Sept. 4, 2014 Extra e-newsletter, then Oct. 1, 2014 print issue. On Aug. 20, a special groundbreaking event was held for the construction of North America’s first installation of an automatic rotary parlor. The 72-stall rotary parlor being built at Mlsna East Town Dairy in Cashton, Wisconsin, will also be the largest robotic milking system in place worldwide, states Matt Daley, president and CEO of GEA Farm Technologies North America.