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One objective is to explore innovative ways to use products previously considered waste streams from dairy production, processing and handling.

Milk powder prices have risen more than 50% since early March, and butterfat and whey prices have posted double-digit increases.

Inaction puts U.S. “behind the curve."--Jerry Kozak, National Milk Producers Federation.

The state’s dairy producer and processor sectors each say their very survival is at stake if AB31 doesn’t go their way.

Year-to-date, some 27,000 more cows have been slaughtered than in 2012.

Some 3,000 dairy farms are up for renewal in the coming months.

The cooperative’s Alma Center, Wis., plant will close permanently and its Waumandee, Wis., cheddar cheese plant will be idled indefinitely.

‘What processors claim is a compromise is nothing more than a costly ruse.’ --National Milk Producers Federation

It’s the first U.S. casein production in more than 50 years.

Closure of slaughter plant in Quebec, Canada last year could be distorting U.S. cow slaughter numbers.