http://future.aae.wisc.edu/blog/articles/2009/01/09/the-ccc-purchases-butter-under-the-dairy-support-program en-us 40 Updates and information about the the trends in Dairy Markets <p>Three loads of butter were sold to the government on Jan. 7^th for $1.05 under the support program.&nbsp;&nbsp;A total of 121,694 lbs. from the western region were sold to the CCC, the first support-program purchases since the Spring of 2003.&nbsp;&bnsp; From February-June 2003, 11.3 million lbs. of butter was sold to CCC.&nbsp;&nbsp; At that time it had been 8 years since the CCC had purchased butter.&nbsp;&nbsp;In addition as of January 7^th more than 123 million lbs of NFDM has been sold to the CCC.</p> Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:37:00 -0600 urn:uuid:4361b66f-4b19-46c1-bb13-ca4ad4e7f6d4 Brian Gould http://future.aae.wisc.edu/blog/articles/2009/01/09/the-ccc-purchases-butter-under-the-dairy-support-program News