Recently added articles from Rural Cooperatives:
Co-ops fueling green revolution.(COMMENTARY)
Nov 01, 2007 ... This summer, Sunflower Electric Power Corporation, a generation and transmission cooperative, embarked on a remarkable bio-energy project to create an energy production system that combines an array of subsystems, including an algae reactor, an anaerobic digester, a biodiesel plant, a ...
Harvesting the prairie wind: Minnesota farmers structure wind business to keep more energy dollars close to home.(Wind Power)
Nov 01, 2007; Campbell, Dan ... Surrounded by fields of corn swaying in an early autumn breeze, Mark Willers makes his way to a wind turbine soaring more than 240 feet into the blue Minnesota sky. After pointing out to a visitor the surprisingly small "footprint" of the turbine--corn grows to within a few yards all ...
Iowa wind farms supported by USDA Renewable Energy Program.(Wind Power)
Nov 01, 2007 ... USDA Rural Development's Section 9006 Renewable Energy Systems loan and grant program is helping to finance wind power projects throughout the nation, including two new wind farms which recently began operating in Iowa. The Crosswind Energy wind farm near Ruthven, Iowa, is ...
Wind power energizing Rural America: increasing share of U.S. wind energy sector held by community and producer groups.(Wind Power)
Nov 01, 2007; Borst, Alan ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Wind energy is a bright spot on the rural economic development horizon. Wind power projects across rural America contribute to local and regional economic growth and development. The wind energy industry creates new jobs and new sources of revenue for ...
Predevelopment work nets higher royalties for landowners.(Wind Power)
Nov 01, 2007; Campbell, Dan ... If any place on earth was made to order for a wind farm, Trimont, Minn., would seem to be it. Not only do prairie winds blow here most of the year, but a major power transmission line runs through the area and there is a nearby electric peaking plant (which kicks into service during ...
Renewable x 2: Corn Plus taps wind power to operate ethanol plant.(Wind Power)
Nov 01, 2007; Campbell, Dan ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For dramatic evidence of the rapidly developing renewable energy economy in rural America, focus your attention on the Corn Plus Ethanol plant, near Winnebago, Minn. Not only is this producer-owned cooperative squeezing 44 million gallons of ethanol out of ...
Stepping up to the plate: Basin Electric sees wind power as key part of multi-pronged strategy to reduce greenhouse gases.(Wind Power)
Nov 01, 2007; Thompson, Stephen ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For Basin Electric Power Cooperative, wind power is just one of many technologies being explored to reduce the co-op's carbon footprint. Basin Electric, a generation and transmission utility co-op based in Bismarck, N.D., is pursuing an aggressive effort ...
Advanced technology enables Illinois electric co-op to tap into wind power.(UTILITY CO-OP CONNECTION)
Nov 01, 2007; Mayberry, Anne ... Driving across rural Illinois in December, the landscape is one of pale gold crop residue set against rich brown soil. But in one part of rural Pike County, Illinois, the landscape has changed dramatically. Now, towering 365 feet above the fields is a wind turbine erected by Illinois Rural ...
Driving development in the delta: Mississippi co-op organizations promote self-help recovery efforts following hurricanes.(CO-OP DEVELOPMENT ACTION)
Nov 01, 2007; Livingston, Jane ... African-American farmers and other rural people in Mississippi have been overcoming hurdles in their pursuit of prosperity for many years. The devastation that followed in the wake of the 2005 hurricane season dealt them another severe blow. But within hours of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ...
Spreading seeds of success: Alabama Farmers Co-op and its Bonnie Plant Farm play big role in strengthening the rural South.(Company overview)
Nov 01, 2007 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you're a resident of rural Alabama or even parts of Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, you're likely to benefit--perhaps more than you know--from an agricultural cooperative that was born during the 1930s to help farmers get a tax break on nitrogen ...
Small advantages: are small co-ops still viable in Ireland's dairy pastures?
Nov 01, 2007; Briscoe, Robert ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Beware the "Grey Ones!" The English novelist J.B. Priestley wrote a thought-provoking tale called The Grey Ones that told of a sinister secret society that specialized in discouraging optimistic people. The Grey Ones did this by explaining--in merciless ...
USDA providing $22,7 million in Value-Added Corner Grants.(VALUE-ADDED CORNER)
Nov 01, 2007 ... USDA in September announced the selection of 162 recipients in 40 states and Puerto Rico to receive $22.7 million through the Value-Added Producer Grant program. "These grants support farm families in rural America by helping them market their commodities and increase their ...
GROWMARK sets sales, income records.(NEWSLINE)(Financial report)
Nov 01, 2007 ... GROWMARK sets sales, income records GROWMARK had record sales of $4.4 billion and record net income of $151 million, before patronage and dividends, for fiscal 2006-07 (which ended Aug. 31). The federated co-op will also be returning record amounts of patronage to its member co-ops. ...
Study: CWT boosted milk checks 75 cents per HW.(NEWSLINE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... The return this year on dairy farmers' investment in Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) will be at least 75 cents per hundredweight (HW), according to an independent economic analysis of the voluntary dairy farmer-funded and managed self-help program. The analysis was performed ...
AGP rejects second takeover bid.(NEWSLINE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... An investor group pursuing a hostile takeover bid of Ag Processing Inc. has made a second bid for the Omaha, Neb.-based soybean processing co-op, upping its offer from $850 million to $910 million. But AGP's board has again rejected the unsolicited offer from Ag Processors Alliance (APA) ...
Green Power EMC now serves 1.6 million Georgia households.(NEWSLINE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Georgia's first renewable energy program, Green Power Electric Membership Corporation (EMC), recently welcomed Okefenoke REMC, in Nahunta, Ga., as its newest member, bringing to 36 the total number of participating electric cooperatives throughout Georgia. This adds another 33,000 ...
PCCA to pay members $25.7 million.(NEWSLINE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Cash payments of $25.7 million to members were announced during the 54th annual stockholders meeting of Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA) in Lubbock, Texas. The payments consist of $12.1 million in cash dividends, $4.8 million in stock retirements and $8.8 million in retirement ...
Walnut growers may sue Diamond over payments.(NEWSLINE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... A group of California walnut growers have hired a Modesto attorney to press claims that Diamond Foods Inc. has paid them millions of dollars below market prices for their crop. Diamond converted from a cooperative in 2005. According to a report in the Stockton Record, the ...
NCGA to help detect organic food fraud.(NEWSLINE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) is partnering with Hanover Co-op Food Stores, PCC Natural Markets and Unified Grocers on a pilot program exploring the implementation of the organic industry's first system-wide, retailer-based organic fraud detection and prevention ...
Small and minority producer co-ops receive USDA grants.(NEWSLINE)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner has announced the awarding of recipients in seven states for $1.2 million through the Small Minority Producer Grant program. "The grants will help small, minority producers develop and market new products," Conner said. "USDA is providing technical ...