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USDA's expanding cooperative development assistance role.(Brief Article)

From: Rural Cooperatives  |  Date: 7/1/2001  |  Author: Wells, John

Even before the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was in tune with the development of cooperatives in the United States and was responding to the growing needs for information regarding cooperatives. USDA's first cooperative-specific project, the "Farmers Cooperative Cotton Handling and Marketing Project," was authorized by USDA's Bureau of Plant Industry in 1912.

This project included: devising a simple form of cooperative organization; ...

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