The culling of approximately 33,000 dairy cows under the CWT is ready to begin. Dairymen across the country submitted 2,552 bids for the CWT milk reduction payments. Whole herd buyout bids made up 2,038 of those total bids.

Dairymen who submitted bids are being notified this week whether they were successful or not. State by state information on the number of successful bidders is not yet available. For the full news release from the CWT program see: http://www.cwt.coop/news_release_091603.doc

More information about the CWT program is available at: http://www.cwt.coop/