The president and chief executive of the Northwest Dairy Association and its subsidiary, WestFarm Foods, resigned last month amid the company's months-long Teamsters lockout. John Mueller's resignation is effective March 31. The dairy cooperative said the resignation was not connected to the labor dispute.
Monsanto Co. has begun severely rationing the genetically engineered growth hormone somatotropin, designed to increase milk production. After federal regulators found quality control problems at the factory where it's made, the St. Louis-based biotechnology company began to reduce by half its usual shipments to farmers.