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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.. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives, which provide various services to their individually-farming members, and agricultural production cooperatives in which production ...
Afton is a city in Union County, Iowa. The population was 874 at the time of the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Its peak of population was in 1880, at 1,231 residents, when numerous European immigrants and migrants from the eastern United States settled here for the farmland.
Calgary Co-op (retail co-op) United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary , Alberta , Canada , with over 120,000 members and with 2007 revenues of over $1.8 billion, UFA is ranked as the 37th largest business in Alberta by revenue according to Alberta Venture magazine.
East Union Community School District is a rural public school district headquartered in Afton, Iowa. The district is mostly in Union County, with small portions in Clarke, Madison, and Ringgold counties. Communities in its service area, in addition to Afton, include Arispe, Lorimor, Shannon City, and Thayer. [2]
In 1935 it took the name Consumers Cooperative Association (CCA), and in 1966 Farmland Industries, Inc. [1] At its peak, the organization was the leading agricultural cooperative in North America, owned by 1,700 farm cooperatives in the United States, Canada and Mexico, which cooperatives were in turn owned by more than 600,000 farmer families ...
More than 4 million chickens in Iowa will have to be killed after a case of the highly pathogenic bird flu was detected at a large egg farm, the state announced Tuesday. ... Farmers must kill 4.2 ...
United Ethanol is a subsidiary of United Cooperative. United Ethanol was incorporated in 2007, and produces 3.9 million gallons of ethanol per month. [ 11 ] In 2008, United Ethanol constructed a carbon dioxide processing facility, which is the byproduct of ethanol production.
The National Farmers Organization (NFO) is a producer movement founded in the United States in 1955, by farmers, especially younger farmers with mortgages, frustrated by too often receiving crop and produce prices that produced a living that paid less than the minimum wage, and could not even cover the cost of seed, fertilizer, land, etc. This ...