Latest News
- CWT ASSISTS WITH 4 MILLION POUNDS OF CHEESE EXPORT SALES
- January 23, 2012
- 1st Quarter 2012 - CWT Export Assistance Sets New Benchmark
- CWT ASSISTS WITH 6.4 MILLION POUNDS OF CHEESE EXPORT SALES - January 9, 2012
About CWT
Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) is a program designed exclusively by America’s dairy farmers for the benefit of America’s dairy farmers. It is a voluntary, producer-funded national program developed by the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), to strengthen and stabilize milk prices.
NMPF's analysis shows that the export market is growing at a rate of eight times faster than the domestic U.S. market. Therefore, the CWT Committee voted in 2010 for CWT to focus its future efforts on increasing sales of dairy products overseas with the Export Assistance program, rather than temporarily reducing the number of cows being milked through herd retirements.
Analysis by Dr. Scott Brown of the Food & Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) and the University of Missouri shows that for every dollar invested by CWT in helping members to export dairy products, $16.59 has been returned to dairy producers. This kind of meaningful financial return to all dairy producers in all parts of the country can only reach its full potential if all producers make the right decision and invest just two cents per hundred pounds of milk in CWT. All dairy farmers reap the financial rewards that CWT provides, and so all dairy farmers, either individually or through their cooperative, should be investing in CWT.