Cooperatives in California Agriculture (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Cooperatives in California AgricultureFarmer-owned cooperatives have played important roles in the development of California's diverse agricultural economy throughout this century. Cooperatives are significant in most of the State's more than 250 crop and livestock commodities.In 1986, 227 cooperatives were Operating in California - 204 market ing and 23 supply cooperatives - with nearly memberships. (growers often hold membership in more than one cooperative.) In sever al subsectors, different cooperatives perform services at different levels in the marketing system. Further, many California farms produce more than one crop.Among the 204 marketing cooperatives, a number of services are provided. For example, 141 provide first-handler functions, 102 market domestically, and 36 are involved in export marketing. Fifty-seven per form transportation functions for members. Twenty cooperatives market byproducts. Thirteen cooperatives provide bargaining functions for mem bers. Two of five cooperatives operate in the fruit and nut crops sector with nearly memberships.No cooperatives, however, are active in the nursery, cattle, chicken, and turkey subsectors.Cooperatives' marketing shares vary by commodity. The share of almond hull marketing is estimated at 38 percent. About 47 percent of the almond production from 75 percent of the State's growers is handled by cooperatives performing processing and marketing functions.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.