The Dairy Termination Program or the "Whole Herd Buyout" is a program created by Cooperatives Working Together (CWT). Participating farmers must submit their entire herds to slaughter. The farmer is then compensated for the amount of

milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digestion, digest solid food. Immune factors and immune ...

that animal would have produced over the course of one year. CWT acquires funding from

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...

s throughout the country who aim to raise the price of milk. CWT receives no federal funding.

References

*{{CRS, article = Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition, url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110810044532/http://ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/05jun/97-905.pdf, author= Jasper Womach United States Department of Agriculture programs