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Excerpt from Growth and Trends in Cooperative Operations, 1951-81
In 1951, about cooperative associations marketed farm products and sold production supplies to farmers. About 60 percent of the marketing associations also handled farm supplies and about 20 percent of the supply associations marketed farm products in 1951 Their combined business volume of billion came from services to more than 7 million farmer memberships. By 1981, net sales of cooperatives reached billion. Cooperative payments to farmers (after operating costs) were billion in 1951 and rose to billion in 1981 This rise amounted to an annual growth rate of 19 percent, while cash receipts for all farm marketings grew at an annual rate of 11 percent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
