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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.

Year-to-date, CWT sales are the equivalent of 1.599 billion pounds of milk--more than USDA’s projected increase in milk marketings for all of 2013.

New color gives producers confidence they are purchasing total oxygen barrier film from Silostop.

Supplies may be as much as 15-20% below a year earlier as the most widespread drought in at least three decades curbs supplies.

Read AgWeb’s full coverage from this year’s conference.

Purchase of the Sartori Foods cheese plant in Blackfoot, Idaho is part of Glanbia’s strategy to be largest producer of American-style cheese.