Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together:
The other four bids are from Land O’Lakes of Arden Hills, MN – three for mixed consumer-packaged cheeses and butter to three destinations: 1.8 metric tons (3,960 lbs.) of cheese and .8 metric tons (1,760 lbs.) of butter to South Korea; 9.2 metric tons (20,240 lbs.) of cheese and .5 metric tons (1,100 lbs.) of butter to China; and 4 metric tons of cheese (8,800 lbs.) and .3 metric tons (660 lbs.) of butter to the Philippines; and a fourth bid for 20 metric tons (44,000 lbs.) of Mozzarella cheese to South Korea. CWT will pay an export bonus to the bidders, once completion of the cheese and butter shipments is verified. These are the first CWT-facilitated exports to China and the Philippines.