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CHS Inc. is a Fortune 500 secondary cooperative owned by United States agricultural cooperatives, farmers, ranchers, and thousands of preferred stock holders. Based in Inver Grove Heights , Minnesota , CHS owns and operates various food processing and wholesale, farm supply, financial services and retail businesses.
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 ...
Southern States Cooperative is an American farmer-owned agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in the Richmond, Virginia area. Southern States Cooperative supplies small, medium, and large commercial farmers with livestock and animal feed, pasture seed, vegetable seed, farm fertilizers, farm supplies, bulk fuel, and crop services, including information and products to grow better crops.
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 ...
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.
MFA Incorporated is a Midwest-based regional agricultural Cooperative serving more than 45,000 farmer/owners in Missouri and adjacent states. Founded on March 10, 1914, MFA (which once stood for Missouri Farmers Association) traces its beginnings to a one-room schoolhouse near Brunswick, Missouri. In Newcomer School on March 10, 1914, seven ...
A grain elevator or grain terminal is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade , the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor , which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage facility.
In 2015, United Cooperative again partnered with Land O' Lakes, this time donating $37,000 to 34 food pantries in Wisconsin. [10] [5] Also in 2015, United Cooperative donated over $31,000 to charities. [5] United Cooperative also awards scholarships to graduating high school seniors, which totaled over $40,000 in 2015. [5]