NEXT Coming Soon
April 2, 2025
NMPF’s board charted a path toward a successor organization to the Cooperatives Working Together export assistance program at its March meeting, voting to rename the program NEXT (NMPF Exports & Trade) while authorizing a new business plan for final approval in June.
The new name accompanies new initiatives planned for the export program, including:
- Expanding the program’s product mix
- Creating Market development initiatives focused on making inroads for U.S. cheese and butter in Latin America and mitigating tariff disadvantages for U.S. specialty proteins and milk powders in key markets in Asia and Middle East-North Africa
- Enhancing program operations to assist in NEXT’s mission by extending delivery periods, removing volume limits and providing greater insight into program operations; and
- Creating a strategic advisory council to guide program strategy.
Cooperatives paying into the new program would be charged 2 cents/cwt of member milk, a reduction from the 4 cents/cwt previous assessment. Any member with questions regarding NEXT should contact economist Will Loux at wloux@nmpf.org.
