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Marketing Operations of Dairy Cooperatives-Historical Summaries

This series summarizes information on marketing operations of dairy cooperatives previously published in Research Report Nos. 38, 40, 88, 133, 173, and 201. These reports contain the findings of Cooperative Programs surveys of dairy cooperative business activities for fiscal years in, or ending in, 1973, 1980, 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2002, including available data for 1957 and 1964. Data for 1936 are gleaned from Cooperative Marketing of Dairy Products, Farm Credit Administration, Cooperative Research and Service Division, Cicular No. C-116, June 1939. Minor revisions have been made to some previously reported numbers to ensure the consistency of the data series overtime. Blanks in the table mean data are not available for the particular entries.

Figure 1-U.S. Geographical Regions

Table 1--Dairy Cooperatives by type of operation and by headquarters region.

Table 2--Cooperatives marketing selected dairy products.

Table 3--Cooperative Share of milk delivered to plants and dealers.

Table 4--Utilization of cooperatively marketed milk.

Table 5--Cooperative member milk by farm location, number of producers, and milk delivery per member-producer.

Table 6--Number of dairy plants owned and operated by cooperatives performing various marketing functions.

Table 6A--Number of dairy plants partially owned by cooperatives performing various marketing functions.

Table 7--Volume of butter marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. production.

Table 8--Volume of dry milk products marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. production.

Table 9--Voulume of natural cheese, by type, marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. Production.

Table 10--Volume of packaged fluid milk products marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. total.

Table 11-Volume of cottage cheese marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. production.

Table 12--Volume of ice cream marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. production.

Table 13--Volume of ice cream mix marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. production.

Table 14--Volume of yogurt marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. production.

Table 15--Volume of bulk condensed milk marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. production.

Table 16--Volume of dry whey products marketed by cooperatives compared with U.S. production.

Table 17--Share of milk and selected products marketed for four largest dairy cooperatives.

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