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Articles in May-June, 2007 issue of Rural Cooperatives

• Wisconsin farmers, small businesses benefiting from new health-care co-ops
  by Anne Todd
• Co-op master's degree application deadline
• West Virginia quilters stitch new marketing plan
• When a co-op dies: long-time gin closes doors, one more casualty of California's shrinking cotton industry
  by Catherine Merlo
• CoBank's record earnings support $193 million patronage
• USDA awards $415,000 for early-warning broadcasts
• From forest to ocean: diverse Washington co-ops show business model flexibility
  by Dan Schofer
• DFA to idle Lovington, N.M., cheese plant
• Minnesota Cooperatives buy Volstead House
• Heed the call
  by Dan Campbell
• Co-ops focus collective action: business structure helps producers address power disparity in the marketplace
  by Thomas W. Gray
• CHS distributes record $258 million to members
• Antitrust report a wake-up call for co-ops to defend marketing rights
  by Donald Frederick
• AMPI earnings bounce back
• NH to host conference
• Four high-priority responsibilities for effective co-op management
  by Jim Wadsworth
• Sunsweet marks 90th anniversary
• Cooperative Farm Credit loans total $36.7 billion
• Where credit is due: Russian farm credit officials study American finance model
  by Perry Letson
• Foremost has $12.5 million loss; closes juice plant; hires COO
• Forging family-to-family food chains
• UPG forms joint venture to operate potato dehydrator
• MMPA elects new president
• Shouldering the risk: strategy for risk management essential to moving cellulosic technology forward
  by Anthony Crooks
• Montana ranchers form Organic Producers Co-op
• FS Springfield feed mill opens
• Producer ownership of ethanol a major plus for rural America
  by Dan Campbell
• Alto Dairy to close liquid feed division
• Rockingham rings in seventh year