Most Recent Articles from Rural Cooperatives

• Growing world population presents challenge and opportunity for U.S. farmers 

  The extraordinary increase in agricultural productivity is one of America's greatest A yet least acknowledged--success stories. It's a story of...

  07/01/09 by Chris Policinski · More from publication

• Dairy co-ops maintain steady market position 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dairy cooperative members in the United States marketed more than 150 billion pounds of milk in...

  07/01/09 by Charles Ling · More from publication

• Traditions run 100-years deep at Tillamook County Creamery 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The two photos were taken 93 years apart. But the grainy, black-and-white photo taken on the...

  07/01/09 by Anne Todd · More from publication

• Ripe time delivery: Carolina growers form co-op to supply farm-to-school market 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] North Carolina has 2,513 elementary and secondary schools with 1.44 million students. That's a...

  07/01/09 by Bill Brockhouse; Bruce Pleasant · More from publication

• Capper-Volstead, revisited 

  In today's uncertain times, the Capper-Volstead Act is not without reach of legislative change. Capper-Volstead was enacted to address economic...

  07/01/09 by Stephanie M. Smith · More from publication

• New life for an old town: wine co-op helps transition from tobacco while boosting agri-tourism 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the picturesque farmland of historic St. Mary's County in Southern...

  07/01/09 by Stephen Thompson · More from publication

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