Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) announced today that it has reached its goal of signing up a supermajority of the nation’s milk supply for two years, which will enable the self-help program to focus on reducing the current devastating imbalance in milk supply and demand. According to CWT officials, 67% of the nation’s milk supply has now committed to pay the … Read More
CWT Announces Final Numbers for Sixth Round
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has finished the farm audits of its sixth herd retirement round since the program was started in 2003, removing 50,630 cows that produced almost one billion pounds of milk. At the completion of the on-farm auditing process earlier this month, CWT removed 186 herds in 33 states, comprised of nearly 51,000 cows that produced 976 million … Read More
CWT Weekly Update
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) weekly export update. CWT announced that it accepted eight export assistance bids last week for the sale of butter, cheese and anhydrous milkfat. Three of the bids were from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO, for the export of anhydrous milkfat to Mexico in the following amounts: 436 metric tons (959,200 pounds), 200 metric … Read More
CWT Export Bids
Cooperatives Working Together has accepted seventeen export assistance bids last week for the sale of cheese and butter. One bid was accepted from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, MO, for the export of 108 metric tons (237,600 pounds) of Monterrey Jack cheese to Japan. All sixteen other bids accepted were for butter. Seven separate bids were accepted from … Read More
CWT Accepts Herd Retirement Bids
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has announced tentative plans to accepted 209 bids in its herd retirement program, representing 25,474 cows and 440 million pounds of milk. This latest round of CWT’s milk reduction program should help strengthen farm-level prices for milk at a time when dairy producers are suffering from rising feed and fuel costs, according to CWT officials. Farmers … Read More
CWT Accepts Four More Bids
Four more export assistance bids have been accepted by Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) for the sale of cheese and anhydrous milkfat. One bid was accepted from Land O’Lakes of Arden Hills, MN, for 54 metric tons (119,050 pounds) of Cheddar cheese for export to South Korea. The other three bids were all from Dairy Farmers of America of Kansas City, … Read More
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