-thirds of the industry is organized as producer-owned cooperatives. The industry has been so highly successful in meeting the … of bull semen. Yet, more bulls (and consequently more cooperatives) are available than are technically needed for genetic … inventory, distribution, and marketing. To maintain their prominent role in the industry, the 22 cooperatives need to …

were twice as large. Large farmers have more purchasing options. Cooperatives were valued as business organizations. Farmer … purchasing strategies affect cooperatives and other supply organizations. …

Seventy-three fresh vegetable marketing cooperatives handled 57 different fresh vegetable commodities weighing 1 ….6 billion pounds; these vegetables are valued at more than $218 million. In 1986, cooperatives handled more than 4 percent of … marketing cooperatives were competition from domestic and foreign areas, overproduction, labor shortage and high costs …

The Nation's 435 dairy cooperatives marketed 95.6 billion pounds of milk, or about 77 percent of all milk sold to … plants and dealers in 1980. There were 146 cooperatives with no milk handling facilities, 97 with only milk and cream … receiving stations, and 192 operating 456 dairy processing and manufacturing plants. Cooperatives sold about 16 percent of the …

. More than half of the grain sold by local cooperatives moved by truck. …

cooperatives established through equity and livestock commitments by producers. Their goals are to obtain sufficient capital to …

The evolution of the federated relationship between local and regional cooperatives is examined from the perspective of … local cooperatives’ need for commodity-based farm supplies and regional cooperatives’ identity as food companies. Because … cooperatives, which then find themselves with excess capacity. Regionals have responded by instituting tighter bonds with selected …

Growth of fruit- and vegetable-processing cooperatives slowed in the late seventies. High-growth cooperatives employed … the impact of the peak season. The 14 cooperatives that were studied sold most of their products to chainstores, but the … high-growth cooperatives sold a smaller proportion of their total product to chains and to Federal and State Government …