CWT to remove over 100,000 cows, 2 Bil. lbs of milk in its latest herd retirement effort

Posted by Brian Gould Wed, 13 May 2009 19:37:00 GMT

The CWT announced today that it has tentatively accepted 388 bids representing 102,898 cows and 2 bil. lbs. of milk production capacity in the first of a series of herd retirements planned over the next twelve months.  The number of cows and pounds of milk represent the largest single herd retirement carried out in the six year history of CWT.  For more detail concerning this rounds of herd reduction, click here.