Formation of the Producers Export Company (PEC) in 1958 was a first attempt by grain cooperatives to develop an export …

producers through their own elevators. Farmer cooperatives as a whole have been unable to effectively countervail this growth in … market concentration. Cooperatives do, 'however, have the potential to counteract their competition's position by pooling …

heterogeneity and polarization within and between Moshav cooperatives, raising concerns about the future economic and social … viability of these cooperatives. …

This report reflects 1976 and 1977 fiscal year operations of 14 primary regional and 4 interregional grain cooperatives …. The l8 cooperatives represent about 97 percent of total grain volume of all regional cooperatives. Grain volume for the 14 … primary regional grain cooperatives and 4 interregiona1s totaled a net of 1.9 billion bushels in fiscal 1976 and 1.B billion …

of reasons, there have been no rural organizations, such as agricultural farmer cooperatives, established to support them … in many areas. The few agricultural farmer cooperatives that have been introduced recently maintain only limited market …