Recently added articles from Rural Cooperatives:
Growing world population presents challenge and opportunity for U.S. farmers.(Commentary)
Jul 01, 2009; ... The extraordinary increase in agricultural productivity is one of America's greatest A yet least acknowledged--success stories. It's a story of creating opportunity for U.S. producers, while also meeting our responsibility to feed a hungry world. For nearly 90 years, Land ...
Dairy co-ops maintain steady market position.
Jul 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dairy cooperative members in the United States marketed more than 150 billion pounds of milk in 2007, maintaining a steady market share for co-ops during the five-year period between 2002 and 2007. This and other findings are the results of a survey of all ...
Traditions run 100-years deep at Tillamook County Creamery.
Jul 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The two photos were taken 93 years apart. But the grainy, black-and-white photo taken on the Hurliman dairy farm in 1915 and the color digital photo snapped at the same location in 2008 tell a story of an unbroken chain of traditional, pasture-based dairy ...
Ripe time delivery: Carolina growers form co-op to supply farm-to-school market.
Jul 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] North Carolina has 2,513 elementary and secondary schools with 1.44 million students. That's a lot of hungry mouths to feed. These schools are increasingly turning to North Carolina produce growers for a wide variety of nutritious, freshest-possible foods, ...
Capper-Volstead, revisited.(Legal Corner)
Jul 01, 2009; ... In today's uncertain times, the Capper-Volstead Act is not without reach of legislative change. Capper-Volstead was enacted to address economic issues that faced agricultural producers. It gives agricultural producers a limited antitrust exemption to market their production on a ...