Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 7 requests for export assistance from Dairy Farmers of America, Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers and United Dairymen of Arizona to sell 2.943 million pounds (1,335 metric tons) of 82% butter to customers in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The product will be delivered in March through August 2015.

Year-to-date, CWT has assisted member cooperatives in selling 4.640 million pounds of cheese and 18.453 million pounds of butter to sixteen countries on four continents. The sales are the equivalent of 458.020 million 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. 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.

Cooperatives Working TogetherThe Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) Export Assistance program is funded by voluntary contributions from dairy cooperatives and individual dairy farmers. The money raised by their investment is being used to strengthen and stabilize the dairy farmers' milk prices and margins. For more information about CWT, visit www.cwt.coop.
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2.17.2015