The National Milk Producers Federation has voted to renew and continue the Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) program for 2012 and 2013. The assessment, however, has been reduced to 2¢/cwt and will only be used for international market development and export sales assistance. There will no further whole herd buyouts under the new program. (From 2003 through 2010, 2,802 herds with nearly 507,000 cows were terminated through the herd buyout program. CWT officials estimate they removed 9.7 billion pounds of milk over those eight years.) <more> Nov. 16, 2011 Dairy Today
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