Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together:
Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted seven export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese, anhydrous milkfat and butter.
Two of those bids were accepted from Land O’Lakes of Arden Hills, MN: one for 450 metric tons (990,000 pounds) of butter to the Netherlands, and one for 90 tons (198,000 lbs.) of butter to Angola (the first CWT export to that country).
The other five bids were from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO: a pair of exports of anhydrous milkfat to the Netherlands, in the amounts of 252 tons (554,400 lbs.) and 200 tons (440,000 lbs.); 252 tons (554,400 lbs.) of anhydrous milkfat to Spain; and 3.5 tons (7,652 lbs.) of retail-packaged cheese to China, along with 1.6 tons (3,440 lbs.) of retail cheese to Panama.
These accepted bids increase CWT’s total 2007 export obligations for cheese to 5,725 metric tons (12.6 million lbs.), its YTD export obligations for butter to 10,470 metric tons (23 million lbs.), and its YTD anhydrous milkfat exports to 2,984 tons (6.6 million lbs.).