"MnrK6ting the products of tho farm or
ranch, purchasing tho necessary supplies
to- grow them, and obtaining the required
credit to carry on farming operations aro
all as much a part of tho business of
farming as producing crops or livestock.
Singly, formors today are in no position
to bargain offactively‘with established
groups in these fields. But through co
operation they have'the opportunity'to
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CO-OPS, LARGE and SMALL, DOT THE U.S. MAP
The average American agricultural Co-oper
ative is a thriving enterprise doing an
annual business Of over $250,000, It has
some'300 members, and its investment in
land, buildings, and equipment is more
thdn $16,500. Multiply those figures by
10,900 and you have an impressive picture
of just hcrar important a role the Nation's
cooperative'associations have assumed in
Agriculture,
There is no State in which cooperation has
not made its influence for the producer's
good strongly felt. Cooperation has gained
its grSatest foothold ill the North'Central
States, where Minnesota, Wisconsin, and
Iowa claim nearly one-third 6f all the
active co-ops in the country. ’ • . '
The cooperatives cover a wide range in size
and scope. Cooperative activity may be
confinod to as small an area as a singLo
neighborhood; it may embrace several
counties; it nay cross Stato lines; and'
it may oven be Nation-wido in operation,
Somo of the analler associations servo as
few as a dozon producers and havo'littlo
in the way of physical facilities. Others
have membership rolls as high as 75,000,
transact thoir business, from modorn urban
office buildings, und have’huge investments
in plants of various types.
Changing conditions and consolidations for
greater efficiency of operation toko an
annual toll of cooperatives, but the growth
of now associations has been sufficiently
great to register a gain oi" about 250 co
ops-a year in recent years.
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