CWT Export Update

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted three bids from Dairy Farmers of America for a total of 225 metric tons (496,040 pounds) of Cheddar cheese to the Middle East. The product will be delivered July through September 2010. Since CWT reactivated the Export Assistance program on March 18, 2010, it has assisted members in making export sales of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, … Read More

CWT Export Update

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted one bid from Foremost Farms and seven bids from Dairy Farmers of America for export assistance for a total of 4,316 metric tons (9.5 million pounds) of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Gouda cheese to the Middle East and Asia. The product will be delivered June through November 2010. Since CWT reactivated the Export Assistance program … Read More

Weekly CWT Export Update

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted three bids from Darigold, two bids each from Dairy Farmers of America and Foremost Farms, and one bid from Land O’Lakes for export assistance for a total of 1,409 metric tons (3.1 million pounds) of Cheddar cheese to the Middle East and Asia. The product will be delivered May through November 2010. Since CWT reactivated … Read More

Weekly CWT Export Update

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted four bids from Dairy Farmers of America for export assistance for a total of 1,219 metric tons (2.7 million pounds) of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack to the Middle East and Asia. The product will be delivered in June and July 2010. Since CWT reactivated the Export Assistance program on March 18, 2010, it has … Read More

CWT Export Update

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) accepted one bid from Darigold, one bid from Land O’Lakes, two bids from Foremost Farms, and two bids from Dairy Farmers of America for export assistance for a total of 2,452 metric tons (5.4 million pounds) of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack to the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe. The majority of the product will … Read More

CWT Releases Results of Independent Study

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has reported the results of an independent study showing that the program has generated a return on investment of $1.54 per hundredweight so far in 2009. That evaluation was released by Dr. Scott Brown of the University of Missouri, a nationally-known farm policy expert who is regularly called on by the U.S. Congress to assess agricultural … Read More

CWT Tentatively Accepts 154 Bids

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) announced that it has tentatively accepted 154 bids in the fourth herd retirement it has conducted in the last 12 months. The 26,412 cows and 517 million pounds of milk accepted in this round, combined with CWT’s three previous herd retirements since December 2008, equal a total reduction of milk production capacity of five billion pounds. … Read More

CWT Completes Eighth Herd Retirement

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Farm audits for the second herd retirement implemented by Cooperatives Working Together in 2009 have been completed, and the majority of the 74,114 cows that produced 1.5 billion pounds of milk have been sent to processing plants. In addition, 2,958 bred heifers also were removed through CWT’s eighth herd retirement round. In this most recent round, CWT removed 274 herds … Read More

CWT Announces Second 2009 Herd Retirement

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Cooperatives Working Together has announced that it will conduct its second herd retirement of 2009. In order to have a more immediate impact, CWT is shortening the time frame for producers to submit bids. A maximum bid level is also being announced for this round. “With the ongoing financial pressure on dairy farmers, and because the vast majority of farmers … Read More

CWT Releases Final Report From Seventh Retirement

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Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has now finished the farm audits of its seventh herd retirement round since the program was started in 2003, removing 101,040 cows that produced almost two billion pounds of milk. At the completion of the on-farm auditing process at the end of June, CWT removed 367 herds in 41 states, comprised of nearly 101,000 cows that … Read More