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CWT Assists with 8.2 Million Pounds of Dairy Product Export Sales

May 1, 2023

ARLINGTON, VA – Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) member cooperatives accepted 15 offers of export assistance from CWT that helped them capture sales contracts for 783,000 pounds (355 MT) of American-type cheese, 55,000 pounds (25 MT) of butter, 6.6 million pounds (3,000 MT) of whole milk powder and 714,000 pounds (324 MT) of cream cheese. The product is going to customers in Asia and South America and will be delivered from May through September 2023.

CWT-assisted member cooperative year-to-date export sales total 15.6 million pounds of American-type cheeses, 495,000 pounds of butter (82% milk fat), 2,000 pounds of anhydrous milkfat, 24.5 million pounds of whole milk powder and 3.4 million pounds of cream cheese. The products are going to 18 countries in five regions. These sales are the equivalent of 361.4 million pounds of milk on a milkfat basis.

Assisting CWT members through the Export Assistance program positively affects all U.S. dairy farmers and cooperatives by fostering the competitiveness of US dairy products in the global marketplace and helping member cooperatives gain and maintain world market share for U.S. dairy products. As a result, the program has helped significantly expand the total demand for U.S. dairy products and the demand for U.S. farm milk that produces those products.

The amounts of dairy products and related milk volumes reflect current contracts for delivery, not completed export volumes. CWT pays export assistance to the bidders only when the export and delivery of the product are verified by the required documentation.

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The 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 dairy farmers’ milk prices and margins.