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Article: USDA marks 75th anniversary of service to cooperatives.(Brief Article)
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- Rural Cooperatives
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Business - Cooperative Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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When Congress enacted the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926, it spelled out a federal program of services to associations of agricultural producers that is as fresh and useful today as when it was written 75 years ago. That these services continue to be carried out attests to the value the public and agricultural community place on business conducted cooperatively.
The value of producer-owned cooperatives as a critical dimension of market structure is derived from the virtue of people working together for their common good. The public interest is thereby served. Help through self-help is the bottom line. Programs providing the tools and encouraging people to help ...
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