ROCHESTER, Minn. — After 50 years in Rochester, Associated Milk Producers Inc. is shutting down its cheese processing plant and cutting 75 jobs. Company officials blamed the struggling state of the U.S. dairy industry.
AMPI employees were notified Friday that cheese production would end immediately at the plant at 700 First Ave. SE. The cooperative’s nonfat dry milk plant in Arlington, Iowa, is also being closed.
Milk being transported to Rochester will be re-routed to other AMPI facilities, including one in Blair, Wis.
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