Stock and Land just issued a notice about the upcoming third herd retirement program that is in the works. Did you retire your cows in the first and second? Are you going to end up going through the third installment? Or, are you doing okay in this economy? These are certainly troubling times, and my thoughts and prayers are always with the American dairy farmer. Tell me your story; I would love to hear it.
The US dairy industry’s Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) program announced last week that it had tentatively accepted 294 bids in the third herd retirement in nine months.
That will see 86,710 cows and a potential 815 million kilograms (1.8 billion pounds) of milk removed from the industry. When combined with the previous two herd CWT retirements it will mean a total cut of 2.2bn kg (4.8 bn lbs) of production capacity removed since December 2008.
This is the second-largest herd retirement since the farmer-funded self-help program started in 2003. In July CWT retirements removed a record 101,000 cows and 0.9bn kg (1.96bn lbs) of milk.
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3 Comments on “US to Remove 87,000 Cows From Dairy Herd”
I would like to sell my jerseys to anyone but my coop SMI does not participate in the CWT is there any chance for me to deal with them directly
I have 200 cows all toghther milking and dry.
I would like to sell my jerseys to anyone but my coop SMI does not participate in the CWT is there any chance for me to deal with them directly
I have 200 cows all toghther milking and dry.
I would like to sell my jerseys to anyone but my coop SMI does not participate in the CWT is there any chance for me to deal with them directly
I have 200 cows all toghther milking and dry.