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Calgary Co-op (retail co-op) United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) is an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary , Alberta , Canada , with over 120,000 members and with 2007 revenues of over $1.8 billion, UFA is ranked as the 37th largest business in Alberta by revenue according to Alberta Venture magazine.
An agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, is a producer cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activities.. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives, which provide various services to their individually-farming members, and agricultural production cooperatives in which production ...
Agway also owned a significant share of Curtice-Burns Foods of Rochester, New York, from 1966 to 1994, part of the holding company Pro-Fac Cooperative from nearby Pittsford, New York, which included the Birds Eye frozen foods brand. [5] In 1999, Agway sold or closed all its retail outlets and sold its warehouse system to Southern States ...
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, San Francisco, CA; Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, Baltimore, MD [11] Seward Community Cafe, Minneapolis, MN [12] TESA Collective; The Drivers Cooperative, New York City
On May 20, 2019, the National Register of Historic Places in the United States, listed two four story sixteen apartment buildings, Alku 1 and Alku Toinen, (Finnish for Beginning 1 and 2), located at 816 and 826 43rd Street, Kings County Brooklyn New York, as the first two coop buildings in the US, built by Finnish immigrants, on the National Register of Historic Places.
Agricultural marketing cooperatives are agricultural cooperative organizations, owned by farmers, that help market a common commodity The main article for this category is Agricultural marketing cooperative .
By 1960, the cooperative had 600 member farmers, although the number of farms in Vermont and across the nation was steadily shrinking. Following a decline in membership, the Cabot Farmers Cooperative Creamery merged in 1992 with Agri-Mark, a cooperative of 1,800 farm families in New England and New York , [ 3 ] and was reincorporated as Cabot ...
Dairylea Cooperative Inc. was a dairy cooperative which was founded in 1907 as The Dairymen's League when group of dairy farmers in Orange County, New York united to increase their bargaining power. [1] In the 1920s, the Cooperative's membership had increased to more than 100,000 farms. [1]