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National Milk Producers Federation praises Senate decision to end farm bill debate.

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

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.

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.