FEATURES

Co-op Link to Sustainability
NCFC studys show "Farmer-owned" message resonates with consumers on environment

Lassoing Wyoming's Wind
Landowners band together to bargain for higher wind-power royalties
By Bill Brockhouse

Aurora Co-op's Centennial
As it turns 100, Nebraska co-op still growing with most abitious endeavor in history

Whatever It Takes
Land O' Lakes asks (and answers) some hard questions about its role in agribusiness
By Mark S. Johnson

75 Years of Chronicling Co-ops
On the street and in cyberspace, Rural Cooperative still spreading word about power of co-op business.
By Dan Campbell

Sec.Schafer meets with NCFC leaders



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On the Cover

For this month's cover, Assistant Editor Stephen Thompson
updated an illustration by Tom Pritchard that originally
appeared on the cover of the January 1952 issue of News for
Farmer Cooperatives. A retrospective of the first 36 years of the
magazine's history.