FEATURES
New global strategy
Year-round citrus demand has Sunkist tapping foreign
market supplies
By Claire Smith
Apple industry study shows value of producer
bargaining associations
By Shelly Grow, Amy Guptill, Thomas A. Lyson, Rick Welsh
Southern hospitality
Walton Electric Co-op makes a positive difference for Georgia
By Steve Thompson
More than milk
Dairylea’s scope of farmer services moves beyond milk marketing
By Pamela J. Karg
Minnesota leads the nation in co-op business volume
By Eldon Eversull
Wisonsin’s Westby, ‘Little Creamery That
Could,’ marks 100th anniversary
By Patrick Duffey
Top co-op communicators honored in Madison
Back to School
NICE marks 75th anniversary with return to campus as co-op
youth education program
By Jim Wadsworth and Craig Scroggs
GROWMARK certification program prepares
directors for new challenges
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For the first time, Sunkist Growers is putting its brand on some foreign-grown fruit in order to better meet market demand for a year-round citrus supply. Story on page 4.Orange photo courtesy Sunkist. A new study that compares the apple markets in Michigan and New York shows how growers in the former benefit from the existence of a bargaining cooperative. Story on page 6. Apple photo by Ken Hammond, USDA
Ann Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture
Randall Torgerson, Deputy Administrator, USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Dan Campbell, Managing Editor
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