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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.
Agway also owned a significant share of Curtice-Burns Foods of Rochester, New York, from 1966 to 1994, part of the holding company Pro-Fac Cooperative from nearby Pittsford, New York, which included the Birds Eye frozen foods brand. [5] In 1999, Agway sold or closed all its retail outlets and sold its warehouse system to Southern States ...
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.
Manufacturing/marketing cooperative: A farm does not always have the means of transportation necessary for delivering its produce to the market, or else the small volume of its production may put it in an unfavorable negotiating position with respect to intermediaries and wholesalers; a cooperative will act as an integrator, collecting the ...
Agricultural marketing cooperatives are agricultural cooperative organizations, owned by farmers, that help market a common commodity The main article for this category is Agricultural marketing cooperative .
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.
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FS Services and Illinois Grain Corporation merged in 1980 to form Growmark. [3] Growmark gained the 37 member cooperatives in Ontario when it acquired United Co-operatives of Ontario in 1994. [3] It entered the northeastern U.S. market in 2002 by purchasing Agway's seed and agronomy businesses, including Seedway. [3] [4] FAST STOP logo