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 butter, anhydrous milkfat and cheese. The bid for cheese was from Foremost Farms of Baraboo, WI, for 190 metric tons (418,000 pounds) of Cheddar cheese to the Netherlands. A bid for butter from Darigold … Read More
CWT to Continue Through 2009
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) the dairy farmer “self-help” program, will now continue through 2009. The program will remain at the assessment level of 10-cents per hundredweight. In a unanimous vote, the committee overseeing the management of CWT endorsed a continuation of the program. Created five years ago, at a time when farm-level prices were at 20 year lows, CWT used … Read More
CWT Announces Herd Retirement – updated with audio
Cooperatives Working Together has announced the fifth round of herd retirements. Starting June 3, bids will be accepted through June 30. New to this round of bidding is the option for producers to include all their bred heifers, for a flat fee of $1,050 per animal; and the exclusion of regional safeguard limits. “All of the economic indicators and benchmarks … Read More