Researchers Find a Way to Extend Milk’s Shelf Life By Seven Weeks

Purdue researchers have discovered a process that adds up to seven weeks to milk's shelf life. Calling it an add-on to pasteurization due to a a rapid heating and cooling of milk that reduces the amount of harmful bacteria present, researchers say they can extend by several weeks the shelf life of one of the most common refrigerator staples in the world. An exciting implication of this technology is that it could reduce waste and allow milk to reach distant locations where transport times using only pasteurization would mean milk would have a short shelf life upon arrival.

Monsanto announced Friday that the European Commission has granted import approval for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans. Basically this allows for food/feed use of Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans into the European Union. With Chinese approval last February and now the EU, Monsanto said in a press release it will have a full system launch in the U.S. in 2017.

And on Sept. 1, 2016, Syngenta will transfer sales and distribution of alfalfa seed to the NEXGROW branded business that is part of Forage Genetics International. The name of the alfalfa seed will remain NEXGROW and the portfolio of varieties offered will stay the same. Current NEXGROW seed treatments will also continue to be available plus all Syngenta alfalfa dealers and seed advisers will have the opportunity to become dealers of NEXGROW alfalfa seed.