Features

Dairy Co-ops Maintain Steady Market Position
By Charlie Ling

Traditions run 100-years deep at Tillamook County Creamery
By Anne Todd

Ripe Time Delivery
Carolina growers from co-op to supply farm-to-school market
By Bill Brockhouse & Bruce Pleasant

New life for an old town
Wine co-op helps transition from tobacco while boosting agri-tourism
By Stephen Thompson

Rural advocate Dallas Tonsager to lead USDA Rural Development
By Dan Campbell

Creating Co-op Fever: Hard Lesson Learned
By Bill Patrie

City Slickers
Co-op boosts Montana ranches that offer working vacations
By Donny Healy

'09 Co-op Hall of Fame inductees played crucial role in co-op movement

Shift to multifunctional agriculture complicates biofuels development
By Thomas W. Gray

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ON THE COVER:
Volunteers fill sandbags to help hold back flood waters near Winfield,
Mo., in 2008. In this month’s cover story, co-op developer Bill Patrie says
such efforts symbolize the type of united cooperative effort needed for
agricultural co-ops to succeed. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino, courtesy
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)