A handful of bills that could have benefited the state's food and ag industry died Thursday after Michigan House lawmakers abruptly ended their session.

Fourth-generation farmer and state senator Kevin Daley called the 29-hour-long session in his chamber an embarrassment.

"I've got so much respect for this seat and being in this room, and it should be embarrassment for every single person in here to pass these things without having them go through a committee," he stressed.

The Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee Vice Chair voiced his opposition just a few days prior during a hearing that foreshadowed the partisan divide in the lame duck.

"I'll be voting no on all these bills," he said during the December 11 meeting. "They were read in on December 3rd. We haven't had time to review these. We've got people in opposition, we're bringing them in and we're sending them out in the last six days of session. I don't think it's right, so I will be voting no on all these."

Fifty-five House Republicans left the Capitol in a boycott against a vote on wage change legislation Thursday preventing a full quorum and stopping the passage of more than 250 bills passed by the state senate.

Approved bills could have increased the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development's access to farm preservation funds, expanded Michigan's cottage food law caps for businesses, improved farm labor housing licensing, and more.

The Michigan Senate will officially adjourn December 31.