Author: John Lee CoulterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Co-operation Among Farmers
Author: John Lee CoulterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Cultivating Cooperation
Author: Raymond A. YoungPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826209993
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
As one of the most successful farm organizations in the United States, the Missouri Farmers Association brought together farm clubs from all over the state to serve as the central body through which farmer-owned businesses could compete with investor-owned businesses. In Cultivating Cooperation, Raymond A. Young follows the fascinating history of MFA from its grass-roots beginning in a schoolhouse in 1914 through the upheaval that led to only the second leadership change in the organization's history in 1979. William Hirth was responsible for the early success of MFA. At the age of fifteen, Hirth became interested in farming and started lecturing on the benefits of building a cooperative of farm clubs. He continued to advocate this idea by publishing The Missouri Farmer, a magazine that informed subscribers on legislative issues and farm club news and later became MFA's house organ. Hirth believed that the farm clubs should capitalize not only on the economic advantages of joining together as a cooperative, but on the political and social advantages as well. Upon Hirth's death in 1940, Fred Heinkel took over leadership of MFA. Under his guidance, the cooperative grew at a feverish rate. Supply companies, such as oil refineries, feed mills, and seed plants, were acquired or built whenever it proved advantageous to the farmers. A sister cooperative was created to expand into neighboring states, and a national alliance was created to establish a stronger representation in Washington, D.C. MFA was also instrumental in securing a fourÞyear medical school in its hometown of Columbia in order to ensure medical care for farmers and their families in rural areas. In addition, MFA has played a role in helping Third World countries develop cooperatives of their own. With intimate knowledge of the organization, Raymond Young involves the reader in the intricacies of the formation and development of the Missouri Farmers Association, enlivening his account with liberal use of anecdotes from the pages of The Missouri Farmer. An introduction by Michael L. Cook places the story of MFA within the context of the history of the cooperative movement nationwide. Students and scholars of Missouri history, as well as farmers and those interested in agriculture, will find this comprehensive examination of MFA an invaluable resource.
American Cooperation
Author: American Institute of CooperationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
1968- include Land-Grant University Conference on Farmers Cooperatives. [Papers].
Series on Cooperatives
Author: James W. CumminsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Cooperation in World Agriculture
Author: Theodor BergmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Economic analysis of agricultural cooperatives and cooperative farming in developed countries and developing countries - examines co- operation in developed market economies; looks at peasant farmer co- operatives in Latin America, viability of farm production co-operation, state intervention in rural cooperatives, and obstacles to co-operative promotion in the Third World; analyses collective farming, agricultural co-operatives, communes and the responsibility system in planned economies. Diagrams, references, statistical tables.
Agricultural Cooperation
Author: Martin Abraham AbrahamsenPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816601399
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Much has been written and published on the general subject of agricultural cooperation, but the material has been scattered and hard to find until now. The volume makes available in convenient form a selection of the most significant articles and excerpts.
Co-operation Among Farmers
Author: John Lee CoulterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Year Book of Agricultural Co-operation
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Issue for 1925 includes a report of the "Conference on Agricultural Co-operation in the British Empire" held at Wembley, July 28-31, 1924.
Cooperation and Integration in Agricultural Production
Author: Otto SchillerPublisher: Bombay, Asia Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Comparison of types of rural cooperatives and of their role in agricultural production within various forms of economy, including in developing countries and in socialist countries of collective economy - covers aspects of land ownership, the pooling of agricultural machinery, collective farm management, the functions of credit cooperatives, agrarian reform, etc., and includes case studies of cooperative forms of agriculture in various countries. Bibliography pp. 213 to 225.
Farmers, Cooperatives, and USDA
Author: Wayne David RasmussenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural credit
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description