Your weekly Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) export update.
CWT has accepted four export assistance bids last week for the sale of butter, cheese and anhydrous milkfat.
Two of the bids were from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO: one for the export of 200 metric tons (440,925 pounds) of anhydrous milkfat to Russia, and another for the export of 19 metric tons (41,888 lbs.) of Monterrey Jack cheese to Panama.
One bid was accepted from California Dairies Inc., for the export of 115 metric tons (253,532 lbs.) of butter to Honduras.
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 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, 15,349 metric tons (33.7 million lbs.); cheese, 1,315 metric tons (2.9 million lbs.); whole milk powder, 170 metric tons (374,000 lbs.); and anhydrous milkfat, 4,638 metric tons (10.2 million lbs.). The milk equivalent total of these products is 1.05 billion pounds.