The Dairy Calf and Heifer Association (DCHA) announced its recent decision to strategically refocus the association’s priorities and industry role. DCHA will be redefining the information and services provided to its members to ensure relevant and progressive training and educational resources are available.

Dairy market information and analysis is now available on a new free app for mobile devices using Apple or Droid platforms. Daily and weekly spot and futures settlement prices are available in an easy-to-read format from the app’s main page. For deeper analysis, users touch “Futures Markets” to access CME Group futures, Daily Dairy Reports (for subscribers only) and the latest statistics.

Oscar winning and two-time Emmy winning filmmaker James Moll has announced the production of a feature-length documentary about the next generation of American farmers and ranchers. The yet-to-be-titled film will profile farmers and ranchers in their twenties, all of whom have assumed the responsibility of running the family business.

Accelerated Genetics has announced John Schenk as the new vice president of operations. Schenk will oversee operations of the farm and barn, semen laboratory and semen warehouse at both Accelerated Genetics’ production facility in Westby, Wisconsin, and at the Nebraska Bull Service facility near McCook, Nebraska.

The national brand Horizon Organic is launching single-serve milk boxes of one of its products, Organic Milk with 32 mg DHA Omega-3. The company states that the new boxes are shelf-stable, requiring no refrigeration, and "provide consumers with all of the same nutritious benefits of organic DHA omega-3 milk."

Dairy producers and their current employees stand to gain significant benefits from passage of a proposed immigration bill introduced in the U.S. Senate in late April.

Ed Taylor, Diane Charlton and Antonio Yúnez-Naude recently published new economic research using nationally representative household survey data from rural Mexico that tracks workers over 30 years.

Their work shows a decline in willingness of Mexican workers to seek ag labor – both in Mexico and in the U.S. Progressive Dairyman Editor Walt Cooley spoke with Charlton about the potential impacts of this trend on U.S. agriculture.