Turkey producers in Central Utah rely on the Moroni Feed Company, a highly integrated cooperative which replaced a declining sugar beet production of the 1930's. The cooperative's complete services now include everything from breeder flocks to processed turkey products, feed milling, field...

A newly developed model for the U.S. livestock industry provides quarterly forecasts of livestock prices and quantities and is used in impact analysis where I alternative scenarios are simulated and compared with the model's base forecast. The model incorporates both behavioral and biological...

According to the U.S. Census of Agriculture, 294,000 farms operated on 10 or fewer acres in 2007. While most small acreage (SA) operations did very little farming, approximately 50,000 SA farms had gross sales of $10,000 or more in 2007; 3,600 reported grossing $500,000 or more. Thus, a limited land...

A nationwide survey of 7,535 farmer cooperatives shows both large and small cooperatives -- locals, region.a1s, and interregiona1s -- in 24 States using industrial development (ID) bonds for long-term debt. financing to 'construct or expand grain elevators, pollution control facilities, feed...