32 Working Days Left on the Senate's Legislative Calendar
This is the Agribusiness Update...I'm Susan Allen
There are only 32 working days left on the Senate's legislative calendar before Vermont's GMO labeling law takes effect July 1. Unless Congress acts to pass a uniform national standard for food labeling, a state government representing only 600,000 residents will dictate the law of the land regarding America's food supply system. Faced with the Vermont labeling mandate, some food manufacturers have already begun to reformulate their products away from GMO ingredients – which studies show will raise the price of groceries for American families by more than $1,000 per year.
John Deere launches a new cellular-based RTK connection that will be especially beneficial for western farmers contending with mountainous terrain. This means improved operational accuracy when working in hilly or mountainous terrain or in areas with significant tree cover, which can interrupt radio RTK signal connections."Machines equipped with a StarFire 3000 receiver and JDLink Connect-enabled Modular Telematics Gateway can now connect to a central server to receive the Mobile RTK Signal correction from a number of established networked RTK base stations
