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Producers Export Company: The Beginnings Of Cooperative Grain Exporting

Reynolds, Bruce - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1980

Formation of the Producers Export Company (PEC) in 1958 was a first attempt by grain cooperatives to develop an export merchandising program. PEC's nationwide membership had different export needs and financial resources which imposed constraints on PEC's strategy and operations. A lack of...

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Cooperative Farm Fertilizer Costs

Vogelsang, Donald L. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979

Farmers buying plant food from cooperatives paid 8 percent less per ton than those buying from other firms. On the average, farmers paid $361 per ton of nutrient from cooperatives in 1975, compared with the $392 they paid noncooperatives. This price differential of $31 a ton saved cooperative...

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Machinery Leasing And Custom Services By Cooperatives And Other Dealers

Biser, Lloyd C. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979

When earnings decline in the face of rising production costs, farmers may find leasing and renting more attractive than owning their equipment. This-study provides information to cooperative machinery dealers and production credit associations on the benefits, drawbacks, and potential of leasing...

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Improvements In Cooperative Livestock Marketing: A Study Of The Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association

Fox, Raymond L.; Haas, John T. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979

This study of operations and services was requested by the Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association of Baraboo, Wisconsin. It appraises nearly 20 years of operations following a transition from terminal market and private treaty selling to auction markets. Goal setting, consolidation or...

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Future Role Of Cooperatives In Marketing Beans, Peas, And Lentils

Smith, Art - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1980

Pulse production in the United States has become geographically specific and concentrated, and the marketing channels … proprietary marketing firms which are vertically integrated as national packagers and exporters, and procure directly from pulse … pulses, merging regional marketing agencies into a single national cooperative marketing agency in common, and/or by …

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Agricultural Exports By Cooperatives

Hirsch, Donald E. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979

about marketing channels, foreign offices and representatives, d,el1very and payment terms of sale, and modes of …

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Growth Of Cooperatives In Seven Industries

O'Day, Lyden - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1978

This study compares the growth of cooperatives with noncooperative. counterparts in seven marketing and distribution …, feed, fertilizer, and petroleum. The cooperatives marketing milk and other dairy products and those distributing fertilizer … marketing commodities changed very little during the period. …

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Establishing A Trout-Marketing Cooperative

Goff, James L.; Dutrow, Ralph W.; WiIIiams, Raymond - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979

To meet the volume requirements of new markets like restaurants and supermarkets, trout growers in the Southern Appalachians are considering forming a cooperative to process and market the fish. The growers say they would commit up to 1,260,519 pounds of trout to a cooperative. That volume will...

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Statistics of Farmer Cooperatives, 1975-76

Richardson, Ralph M.; Click, Jane H. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979

This report gives results of a 1975-76 survey of marketing, farm supply, and related service cooperatives in the United … marketing, farm supply, and related service volume, California continued in first place with 9.8 percent of total net business …

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The Changing Financial Structure of Farmer Cooperatives

Griffin, Nelda; Wissman, Roger; Monroe, William J.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1980

Combined assets of 5,795 farmer marketing and supply cooperatives amounted to $18.6 billion at the close of fiscal year …

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