Agricultural Cooperatives In The Us Grain Export Industry

Author : David E. Cummins
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428524753
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Cooperative Involvement in Grain Marketing (Classic Reprint) written by David E. Cummins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cooperative Involvement in Grain Marketing In 1975, Farmer Cooperative Service, now Agricultural Cooperative Service (acs), made a comprehensive study of the export potential of grain cooperatives. This was the beginning of a period of steadily increasing u.s. Grain exports that continued through the seventies. During 1975 to 1982, grain cooperatives and the grain industry in general operated in a period characterized by an expansion of export demand and domestic production; grain embargoes; domestic transportation shortages and crises followed by surpluses; and Government regulations dealing with air pollution, elevator safety, grain inspection, and transportation. During this period, some local grain cooperatives either closed or merged with others for reasons that include rail abandonment or reduced rail service. The unit-train movement of grain to export ports increased in response to lower rail transportation rates. Cooperatives expanded their elevator facilities and transportation equipment to handle the increasing grain volumes. Cooperatives exporting grain wrestled with the effects of export embargoes and rising inspection costs. Net savings from grain operations were erratic, as some grain regionals prospered while others suffered setbacks. Acs, through its contacts with grain cooperatives and those working with grain cooperatives, received strong signals that there was a need to reevaluate the total cooperative grain marketing system, with emphasis on looking to the future. This task was undertaken by an acs study team that contacted officials of grain cooperatives, cooperative educators, extension specialists, banks for cooperatives, and others to determine their views on the status, progress, problems, and future of grain cooperatives. The team reviewed recent studies by other researchers, and analyzed and evaluated available primary and secondary information relating to grain cooperatives. The team did not find firm solutions to the problems and concerns shared by grain cooperatives, but the report does pull together a body of relevant information, presents alternatives, and offers suggestions. The report should be useful to cooperative directors, managers, banks financing cooperatives, and others who work with and for grain cooperatives. 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.