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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.

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.

This is the third consecutive month dairy farmers will receive a MILC payment.

Scott Bentley is the new General Manager effective June 3, 2013.

Snowpack water content only 17% of normal.