Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 6 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America and Tillamook County Creamery Association to sell 3.166 million pounds of Cheddar cheese to customers in Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and the South Pacific. The product will be delivered May through September 2014.

Year-to-date, CWT has assisted member cooperatives in selling 50.369 million pounds of cheese, 42.085 million pounds of butter and 7.809 million pounds of whole milk powder to 33 countries on six continents. These sales are the equivalent of 1.469 billion pounds of milk on a milkfat basis.

Assisting CWT members through the Export Assistance program, in the long-term, helps member cooperatives gain and maintain market share, thus expanding the demand for U.S. dairy products and the U.S. farm milk that produces them in the rapidly growing world dairy markets. This, in turn, positively impacts U.S. dairy farmers by strengthening and maintaining the value of dairy products that directly impact their milk price.

CWT will pay export assistance to the bidders only when delivery of the product is verified by the submission of the required documentation.