Farmers Cooperative history

By 1919, when the Bureau of Census did a survey that broke down purchases and sales by cooperatives, it found tremendous increases.

In the United States a co-operative association was founded by 1920.

In 1922, the Capper-Volstead Act exempted cooperative marketing organizations from anti-trust legislation.

By 1925 the American Institute of Cooperation, which advocated for education about cooperatives, had been organized.

In 1926, Congress passed a law requiring the secretary of agriculture to create a Division of Cooperative Marketing under the USDA's Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

In 1936, farmers were making 20 percent of their purchases through co-ops, spending over $250 million.

By 1950, fully a third, 33 percent, of farm purchases were through co-ops.

A citizen’s group began operating wind turbines and involving broad community ownership in the U.K. by 1995.

Member companies employed almost 80,000 people and the Modragon group of companies was the seventh largest in Spain in 2006.

Co-operative banks have become very successful throughout Europe, and were able to respond more effectively than most corporate banks during the 2008 mortgage-securities crisis.

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The Farmers Cooperative Board of Directors were present to hold their meeting where Allan Zumpfe, CEO, discussed highlights from 2021 and Mark Thieszen, CFO, shared the financials from the annual report.