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Freedom Farm Cooperative was an agricultural cooperative in Sunflower County, Mississippi, founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967 as a rural economic development and political organizing project. The cooperative sought to uplift Black families through food provisions, such as vegetable gardens and pig-raising, and ...
The Agricultural Wheel was a cooperative alliance of farmers in the United States. It was established in 1882 in Arkansas. [1] A major founding organizers of the Agricultural Wheel was W. W. Tedford, an Arkansas farmer and school teacher.
Wilco is a farmer-owned farm supply cooperative that began as the Santiam Farmers Co-op in the 1930s [1] based in the Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon. In 1967, the Santiam Farmers Co-op merged with 4 other co-ops, the Mt. Angel Farmers Union Warehouse, the Donald Farmers Co-op, the Valley Farmers Co-op in Silverton , and the Canby ...
A new day has dawned for Jubilee Justice after the Keller Family, owners of Inglewood Farm, transferred ownership of 17 acres to the non-profit that helps Black farmers become more self-sufficient ...
An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a producer cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activities.
Farmland Industries was the largest agricultural cooperative in North America when it eventually sold all of its assets in 2002–04. During its 74-year history, Farmland served its farmer membership as a diversified, integrated organization, playing a significant role in agricultural markets both domestically and worldwide.
The cooperative allowed Black farmers to skip the white middleman and sell directly to northern markets. This cooperative development movement of activists ultimately evolved into the Federation of Southern Cooperatives which succeeded in establishing more than 150 small businesses across 11 southern states.
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