Your weekly Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) export update.
CWT has accepted ten export assistance bids for the sale of butter, cheese and anhydrous milkfat.
Four of the bids were from Darigold of Seattle, WA, for butter exports in the following amounts to the following destinations: 500 metric tons (1,102,312 pounds) to Morocco; 125 metric tons (275,578 lbs.) to Japan; 50 metric tons (110,231 lbs.) to Lebanon; and 25 metric tons (55,116 lbs.) to the United Arab Emirates.
Three of the bids were from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO, for the export of anhydrous milkfat to Russia in the following amounts: 72 metric tons (158,733 lbs.), and two separate bids of 50 metric tons each (110,231 lbs.).
Two bids were accepted from California Dairies Inc., one for the export of 3,000 metric tons (6,613,869 lbs.) of anhydrous milkfat to Mexico, and another for the export of 92 metric tons (202,825 lbs.) of butter to Mexico.
And finally, a bid was accepted from Foremost Farms of Baraboo, WI, for the export of 185 metric tons (407,855 lbs.) of Mozzarella cheese sticks to South Korea. CWT will pay an export bonus to the bidders, only when delivery of the product is verified by the submission of the required documentation.
With these accepted bids, CWT’s total 2008 export obligations are: butter, 15,272 metric tons (33.6 million lbs.); cheese, 1,111 metric tons (2.4 million lbs.); whole milk powder, 170 metric tons (374,000 lbs.); and anhydrous milkfat, 4,438 metric tons (9.8 million lbs.).