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Marketing Operations of Dairy Cooperatives

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  • Ling, K. Charles
  • Roof, James B.

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The Nation’s 296 dairy cooperatives marketed 105.8 billion pounds of milk, or 76 percent of all milk sold to plants and dealers in 1987. Total number of member-producers was 120,603. There were 121 cooperatives operating 229 dairy processing and manufacturing plants, 44 with only milk-receiving stations, and 131 with no milk-handling facilities. Cooperatives sold 14 percent of the Nation’s packaged fluid products, 8 percent of the ice cream and ice milk, 83 percent of the butter, 91 percent of the dry milk products, 45 percent of the cheese, and 13 percent of the cottage cheese made in the United States. The traditional method of paying for milk adjusted for butterfat, with or without adjusting for other components, was the prevailing method of paying for member milk. A quality premium program was the incentive offered most frequently by cooperatives.

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  • Ling, K. Charles & Roof, James B., 1989. "Marketing Operations of Dairy Cooperatives," Research Reports 313024, United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:urdbrr:313024
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313024
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    1. Sukant K. Misra & Dale H. Carley & Stanley M. Fletcher, 1993. "Dairy farmers' evaluation of dairy cooperatives," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 9(4), pages 351-361.
    2. WILLIAM D. DOBSON & Paul Christ, 2000. "Structural Change in the U.S. Dairy Industry: Growth in Scale, Regional Shifts in Milk Production and Processing, and Internationalism," Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Staff Papers 438, Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Department.
    3. Dobson, William D. & Christ, Paul, 2000. "Structural Change In The U.S. Dairy Industry: Growth In Scale, Regional Shifts In Milk Production And Processing, And Internationalism," Staff Papers 12611, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
    4. Dobson, William D. & Christ, Paul, 2000. "Structural Change in the U.S. Dairy Industry: Growth in Scale, Regional Shifts in Milk Production and Processing, and Internationalism," Staff Paper Series 438, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics.
    5. Hoveid, Oyvind & Hammond, Jerome W., 1994. "Comparative Costs Of Dairy Marketing In Norway And The U.S," Staff Papers 13815, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics.

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