The latest export announcement for Cooperatives Working Together.

Cooperatives Working Together announced Friday that it has accepted a bid from California Dairies Inc. of Artesia, CA, to export 225 metric tons (495,000 pounds) of butter to Turkey. CWT will pay an export bonus to the bidder, once completion of the butter shipment is verified.

This is the second butter shipment to Turkey facilitated by CWT in the past ten days. It increases CWT’s total butter exports in 2006 to 1,122 metric tons (2.47 million pounds). CWT has also facilitated a total of 1,035 metric tons (2.28 million pounds) of cheese so far this year. Previous shipments facilitated by CWT’s export assistance program have gone to Algeria, Barbados, Denmark, Egypt, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Panama, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Trinidad, Tunisia and Turkey.