Excerpt from Marketing and Farm Supply Cooperatives: Membership and Use, 1980Viewed from three different perspectives, membership in and use of cooperatives was greatest in the Northern Plains, among dairy farmers, and among farmers with annual sales of $100 000 and over.Sixty-seven percent of farmers in the Northern Plans were members of a cooperative, 52 percent in the Lake States.For three major types of farms, 71 percent of dairy farmers were members of a cooperative, followed by 50 percent of cash grain farmers, and 31 percent of livestock producers.For all types of farmers, level of cooperative membership increased substantially with increasing farm size - from 2! Percent of farmers with annual sales of under to 69 percent of those with sales of and over.Only 22 percent of farmers held membership in and used marketing cooperatives, with the greatest concentration among those with sales of and over. Another 5 percent used but did not hold membership in a marketing cooperative. Much of this low level of cooperative marketing activity seems to be associated with either a diverse agriculture or large numbers of small farms in a trade area. Such situations may result in insufficient volume of a particular commodity to support a marketing cooperative.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.