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Marketing Operation of Dairy Cooperatives

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  • Ling, K. Charles
  • Liebrand, Carolyn Betts

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The Nation’s 265 dairy cooperatives marketed 122.6 billion pounds of milk, or 82 percent of all milk sold to plants and dealers in 1992. These cooperatives were owned by 110,440 member-producers. Eighty-six cooperatives operated 299 dairy processing and manufacturing plants, 44 cooperatives had milkreceiving stations only, and 135 had no milk-handling facilities. Cooperatives sold 16 percent of the Nation’s packaged fluid products, 10 percent of the ice cream and ice milk, 65 percent of the butter, 81 percent of the dry milk products, 43 percent of the natural cheese, 48 percent of the dry whey products, and 13 percent of the cottage cheese made in the United States. The prevailing method of paying for member milk by the reporting cooperatives was to adjust the milk price for both butterfat and other component(s). Milk quality was the primary driving factor in the overwhelming majority of price incentive programs offered by cooperatives.

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  • Ling, K. Charles & Liebrand, Carolyn Betts, 1994. "Marketing Operation of Dairy Cooperatives," Research Reports 279986, United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:urdbrr:279986
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.279986
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    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.

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    Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing;

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