Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together: Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted nine export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese and butter. Five bids were accepted from Land O’Lakes of Arden Hills, MN: 237 metric tons (521,400 pounds) of butter to the United Arab Emirates; 6 tons (13,200 lbs.) of retail-packaged cheese to … Read More
CWT Accepts 343 Bids
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) announced the results of its latest herd retirement effort today. According to CWT, the accepted bids will remove more than one billion pounds of milk. CWT announced today that it is tentatively accepting 343 bids from 39 states, representing 54,000 cows which produced 1.03 billion pounds of milk last year. A total of 1,397 bids were … Read More
CWT Export Assistance Bids
Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together: Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted nine export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese and butter. Three of the bids were from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO: 296 metric tons (651,200 pounds) of Mozzarella cheese to Guatemala; 140 metric tons (308,000 lbs.) of Cheddar … Read More
U.S. Dairy Export Council Goes for Gold in China
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CWT Export Assistance Bids
Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together: Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted ten export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese, butter and anhydrous milkfat. Six of the bids were from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO: 259 metric tons (569,800 pounds) of Cheddar cheese to the Netherlands; three bids for 19 … Read More
CWT Export Assistance Bids
Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together: Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted thirteen export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese, anhydrous milkfat and butter. The first eight bids are from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO: 594 metric tons (1.3 million pounds) of Mozzarella cheese to Japan: 190 metric tons (418,000 … Read More
CWT Export Assistance Bids
Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together: Cooperatives Working Together announced today (Feb. 5) that it accepted four export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese and butter. The first three bids were from Land O’Lakes of Arden Hills, MN: one for 432 metric tons (950,400 lbs.) of Mozzarella cheese to Saudi Arabia; one for 20 metric … Read More
CWT Export Assistance Bids
Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together: Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted four export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese and butter. The first three bids were from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO: 185 metric tons (407,000 pounds) of Cheddar cheese to Japan, 19 metric tons (41,800 lbs.) of Cheddar … Read More
Basketball, Milk & China?
Basketball, milk and China? It seems an unlikely parntership, but yesterday the NBA announced an extensive marketing deal with Mengniu Milk, China’s top producer of milk by sales volume. We’ve been reading about how China’s large population is increasing the country’s milk consumption. This campaign will further that increase even more. The league’s presence in China has increased steadily since … Read More
CWT Export Assistance Bids
Here’s the latest announcement from Cooperatives Working Together:
Cooperatives Working Together announced today that it accepted nine export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese and butter.
The first five bids were from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO: 114 metric tons (250,800 pounds) of Cheddar cheese to South Korea; a second bid of 57 metric tons (125,400 lbs.), again bound for South Korea, of mixed cheeses; another 57 metric tons (125,400 lbs.) of mixed cheeses for Panama, and a third shipment of 57 tons (125,400 lbs.) of mixed cheeses for El Salvador; and 12.3 metric tons (27,060 lbs.) of mixed cheeses for Japan.
The other four bids were from Land O’Lakes of Arden Hills, MN: 200 metric tons (440,000 lbs.) of butter to Turkey; 80 metric tons (176,000 lbs.) of Mozzarella cheese to South Korea; 38 metric tons (83,600 lbs.) of Cheddar cheese to El Salvador; and 8.7 metric tons (19,140 lbs.) of Parmesan cheese to South Korea.
CWT will pay an export bonus to the bidders, once completion of the butter and cheese shipments is verified.