United States

Department of

Agriculture

Agricultural

Cooperative

Service

Service

Report 39

Farmer Cooperative

Statistics, 1992
Abstract

Farmer Cooperative Statistics, 1992

Ralph M. Richardson,

Celestine C. Adams,

Katherine C. DeVille,

Jacqueline E. Penn,

John W. St&man,

and Charles A. Kraenzle,

Statistics and Technical Services Staff,

Agricultural Cooperative Service,

U.S. Department of Agriculture,

Post Office Box 96576,

Washington, DC 20090-6576

A survey of U.S. farmer cooperatives for calendar year 1992 showed net

income of $1.44 billion, down from $1.57 billion in 1991. Gross and net business

volumes were up for the 4,315 cooperatives included in the survey. Assets, liabilities, and net worth were up. Business volume, number of cooperatives, and

cooperative memberships were reported by commodity for those cooperatives

classified as marketing, farm supply, and service. Cooperative trends in cooperative numbers, memberships, sales volume, net income, assets, liabilities, and net

worth are reported. Data on balance sheet and net income and selected activities of other service organizations also were reported.

Keywords: cooperatives, statistics, business volume, memberships, balance

sheet, net income.

ACS Service Report 39

November 1993

Price: Domestic-$3.00: foreign-$3.75
Preface

Farmer cooperative statistics are collected annually to provide information

on the progress and trends in cooperatives’ growth and development. Many

people use these statistics for various purposes such as research, technical

assistance, education, planning, and public policy. Acquiring, analyzing, and

disseminating farmer cooperative statistics is authorized by the Cooperative

Marketing Act of 1926.

This report provides aggregate information on the number, membership,

business volume, and net income of farmer cooperatives classified by principal

product marketed and major functional type. Both gross (includes intercooperative business) and net (excludes intercooperative business) dollar volumes of

cooperatives are reported.

Statistics for 1992 were only compiled on a national basis. Data by State

are reported every other year. Therefore, to provide information by State in this

report, 1991 numbers were included as an appendix.

The information was collected from individual farmer cooperatives by a

mail survey of all organizations identified by the Agricultural Cooperative

Service (ACS) as farmer cooperatives. Information was requested for their business years that ended during calendar 1992.

ACS conducts an annual census because of the declining number of cooperatives, the need to make more accurate estimates for all cooperatives, and

the need for more data on individual cooperatives for research purposes.

Before 1989, survey data were collected from cooperatives selected in a stratified random sample in 3 of 4 years. The census provides better information for

developing a database for research and other purposes.

Statistics for all cooperatives were derived by estimating and adding data

for nonrespondents to respondent data. Those responding to the 1992 survey

accounted for 83.4 percent of the total gross sales handled by farmer cooperatives.

ACS depends on the cooperative community’s response to its annual survey to develop a detailed and comprehensive set of statistics on farmer cooperatives. The time and effort taken to provide information and the rapidity with

which it is furnished are greatly appreciated.

Appreciation is extended to Todd Holloway for assisting with the survey

and John H. Wells for providing technical support.

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Contents

HIGHLIGHTS

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I-COOPERATIVE TRENDS, 1983-92 ............................................................... 1

Number of Cooperatives ............................................................................. 1

Memberships .............................................................................................. 1

Business Volume ....................................................................................... .5

Net Income.................................................................................................. 7

Balance Sheet ........................................................................................... .8

II-1 992 STATISTICS ........................................................................................ 10

Number of Cooperatives ........................................................................... 10

Memberships ............................................................................................. 11

Business Size ........................................................................................... 12

Business Volume ...................................................................................... 13

Net Income................................................................................................ 14

Balance Sheet .......................................................................................... 17

Selected Ratios ......................................................................................... 19

III-DEFINITION OF A FARMER COOPERATIVE.. ........................................ .19

Classification of Cooperatives .................................................................. 21

Organizational Membership Structures.. ................................................. .21

IV-OTHER SERVICE COOPERATIVES........................................................ .22

Farm Credit System .................................................................................. 22

Rural Telephone Cooperatives ................................................................. 25

Rural Electric Cooperatives ...................................................................... 25

Rural Credit Unions .................................................................................. 25

Dairy Herd Improvement Associations .................................................... .25

APPENDIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

TABLES

Table l-Number and percentage of farmer cooperatives, 1983-92.. ............... .2

Table 2-Memberships in marketing, farm supply, and service cooperatives, 1983-92 ........................................................................................ 3

Table 3-Cooperative’s net business volume, 1983 and 1992 .......................... .5

Table 4-Gross and net business volume, 1983-92 .......................................... .7

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Table 5---Net income of farmer cooperatives, 1983-92.. .................................... .8

Table 6-Combined balance sheet data of farmer

cooperatives, 1983-92.. ....................................................................... .9

Table 7-Cooperative numbers, by major business activity, 1992.. ................. .l 0

Table 8-Number of cooperatives headquartered in State, 1992.................... .l 0

Table g--Number of branches operated by grain and farm

supply cooperatives, 1992.. ............................................................... .I2

Table 1 O-Cooperative memberships, by major business activity, 1992.. ...... ..13

Table 1 l-Farmer cooperatives grouped by business volume, 1992 .............. .14

Table 12-Cooperative business volume by commodity, 1992.. ...................... .15

Table 13-Farmer cooperatives’ net income, 1992.. ........................................ .I7

Table 14-Combined balance sheet data for farmer cooperatives, 1992.. ..... ..18

Table 1 IS-Combined assets of farmer cooperatives, 1992 ............................. .18

Table 16-Selected ratios for cooperatives, 1992.. .......................................... .20

Table 17-Farm Credit System combined assets, net worth,

and net income, 1986-92 ................................................................ .22

Table 18-Number and structure of selected farm credit cooperatives, 1992 ..2 3

Table 1 g--Farm Credit Banks combined assets, net worth,

net loans, and net income, 1986-92.. .............................................. .24

Table 20-Banks for Cooperatives combined assets, net

worth, net loans, and net income, 1986-92.. ................................... .25

Table 21-Number, participation, and level of activity of

selected service cooperatives, by State.. ........................................ .26

FIGURES

Figure l-Farmer Cooperatives in the United States, 1983-92......................... .2

Figure 2-Cooperatives Removed from AC% List, 1983-92.. .......................... .3

Figure 3-Memberships in Farmer Cooperatives, 1983-92............................... .4

Figure 4-Cooperatives’ Net Business Volume, 1983-92 .................................. .4

Figure 5-Cooperatives’ Sales of Selected Commodities, 1983-92 .................. .6

Figure 6-Cooperatives’ Sales of Farm Supplies, 1983-92............................... .6

Figure 7-Net Income of Farmer Cooperatives, 1983-92.. ................................ .8

Figure 8-Assets of Farmer Cooperatives, 1983-92.. ........................................ .9

Figure g-Branches of Grain and Farm Supply Cooperatives, 1992.. ............. .ll

Figure 1 O-Distribution of Memberships by Type of Cooperative, 1992...........12

Figure 1 l-Farmer Cooperatives Grouped by Business Volume, 1992 ......... ..13

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Figure 12--Relative Importance of Major Farm Products

Marketed by Cooperatives, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Figure 13-Relative Importance of Major Farm Supplies

Handled by Cooperatives, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Figure 14-Cooperative Farm Credit Districts, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

APPENDIX TABLES

Appendix Table l-Cooperative numbers and memberships by

major business activity and State, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Appendix Table 2-Cooperative business volume by commodity

and State, 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

APPENDIX FIGURES

Appendix Figure l-Cooperative Net Business Volume, 1972-92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Appendix Figure 2-Cooperatives’ Gross and Net Business

Volume, 1983-92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Appendix Figure 3-U.S. Farms and Farmer Cooperative

Memberships, 1972-92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Appendix Figure 4-Distribution of Farmer Cooperatives by

Type, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Appendix Figure 5----Farmer Cooperatives Grouped by Size of

Membership, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Appendix Figure 6-Farmer Cooperatives’ Assets, 1983-92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Appendix Figure -/-Farmer Cooperatives Grouped by Size

of Assets, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Appendix Figure 8-Distribution of Net Income by Type of

co-op, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Appendix Figure 9-Distribution of Losses by Type of Co-op, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Appendix Figure 1 O-Distribution of Net Worth by Type of

co-op, 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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Highlights

For 1992, marketing, farm supply, and related service cooperatives reported a

combined net income of $1.44 billion, down 8.3 percent from the $1.57 billion

reported in 1991. The 1992 net included intercooperative dividends and refunds

of $356 million-down 6.5 percent from $381 million.

l Total gross business volume (including intercooperative business) handled by

cooperatives increased 2.9 percent to $93.4 billion from $90.8 billion.

l Total net business, excluding business done between cooperatives, was up

3.5 percent to $79.3 billion from $76.6 billion.

l The number of cooperatives declined 4 percent from 4,494 to 4,315. Each

year, new cooperatives are formed and others disappear as they discontinue

operations due to consolidation, merger, acquisition, or unsuccessful operations.

l Grain (1,554) and farm supply cooperatives (2,628) operated an estimated

4,182 branches.

l Cooperative memberships of 4,071,869 increased slightly (0.3 percent) from

4,058,570.

l Gross value of farm products marketed by cooperatives in 1992 increased

3.8 percent to $63.8 billion from $61.4 billion. Net value of these farm products,

after eliminating duplication from intercooperative business, was up 3.5 percent

to $58.2 billion from $56.2 billion.

l Gross value of farm supplies handled by farmer cooperatives was up 0.9 percent to $27 billion from $26.8 billion. Net value of these supplies, after adjusting

for intercooperative business, increased 3.3 percent to $18.5 billion from $17.9

billion.

l Receipts for services related to marketing farm products and handling farm

supplies plus other income was up 2.3 percent to $2.6 billion.

l Combined assets for all farmer cooperatives increased 2.3 percent to $32 billion. Net assets, after eliminating intercooperative investments, were up 2.8 percent to $29.6 billion from $28.8 billion.

. . . Vlll
l Total liabilities of $17.8 billion were up 3.2 percent from $17.2 billion.

l Net worth, or member and patron equity, was up 1.2 percent to $14.2 billion.

Total assets financed by member and patron equity were down from 44.9 percent to 44.4 percent.

HIGHLIGHTS CAPSULE

1991 1992

Number of cooperatives 4,494 4,315

Memberships 4,058,570 4,071,869

Net Business volume (million dollars) 76,636 79,284

Net income (million dollars) 1,570 1,440

Total assets (million dollars) 3 1,268 31,994

Net worth (million dollars) 14,040 14,213

Leading State: 1989

(8,O 14)

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Farmer Cooperative Statistics,

Ralph M. Richardson

Celestine C. Adams

Katherine C. DeVille

Jacqueline E. Penn

John W. Stutzman

and

Charles A. Kraenzle

The changing economic environment in the

1980s forced some cooperatives out of business.

Others had to make difficult adjustments such as

reducing the number of employees and selling off

less productive assets. An indication of the stress is

noted in business volume of farmer cooperatives

that dropped from its peak of $73 billion in 1984 to

$58.4 billion in 1986. Volume subsequently

rebounded to reach $77.3 billion in 1990 and a

record of $79.3 billion in 1992 (appendix figure 1).

Number of Cooperatives

The total number of marketing, farm supply,

and related service cooperatives declined from

5,989 in 1983 to 4,315 in 1992 (table 1 and figure 1).

Marketing cooperatives declined from 3,647 to

2,218 and farm supply cooperatives from 2,208 to

1,618. The number of service cooperatives

l Ralph M. Richardson, agricultural statistician; Celestine C.

Adams, agricultural statistician; Katherine C. DeVille, statistical assistant; Jacqueline E. Penn, statistical assistant;

John W. Stutzman, computer specialist; and Charles A.

Kraenzle, director, Statistics and Technical Services Staff

(STSS).

increased from 134 to 479, due primarily to reclassifying cotton ginning cooperatives and livestock

shipping associations from marketing to service.

From 1983 through 1992,2,308 cooperatives

were removed from the ACS list of farmer cooperatives because of dissolutions, mergers, consolidations, and other reasons-an average decrease of

nearly 231 per year. Over the decade, 41 percent

were dissolved, 22.9 percent merged or consolidated, 16.9 percent were acquired by other cooperatives or investor-owned firms, and the remaining

19.1 percent were removed because of other reasons such as inactive or no longer operating as a

cooperative (figure 2).

Memberships

Memberships in farmer cooperatives, almost

five million in 1983, reached nearly 4.1 million in

1992 (table 2 and figure 3). The long-term decline

in part reflected the decreasing number of farmers

in the United States. Many farmers were members

of more than one cooperative and each membership was counted. Total membership contains

duplication that cannot be eliminated with current

reporting methods.

However, the slight membership increase in

1992 does not necessarily reflect a change in the

long-term trend. It basically reflects changes in

methods used to collect and process farmer cooperative statistics.

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Figure 1- Farmer Cooperatives in the United States, 1983-92

The

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

1983 84 65 86 87 88 89 90 91 92

Cotton ginning cooperatives and livestock shipping associations reclassified from marketing

to service cooperatives in 1989 and 1992 respectively.

Selected Service

Farm Supply

Marketing

Table I- Number and percentage of farmer cooperatives, 1983-92

Period 1 Marketing Farm supply Service Total

No. Percent. NO. Percent, No. Percent. No.

1983 3,647 60.9 2,208 36.9 134 2.2 5,989

1984 3,514 60.8 2,136 36.9 132 2.3 5,782

1985 3,441 61.2 2,036 36.2 148 2.6 5,625

1986 3,260 60.7 1,971 36.7 138 2.6 5,369

1987 3,054 59.8 1,941 38.0 114 2.2 5,109

1988 2,988 60.5 1,836 37.2 113 2.3 4,937

1989 * 2,550 53.1 1,803 37.6 446 9.3 4,799

1990 2,519 54.0 1,717 36.8 427 9.2 4.663

1991 2,384 53.0 1,689 37.6 421 9.4

19923 2,218 51.4 1,618 37.5 479 11.1

1 For years before 1983, see Cooperative Historical Statistics, CIR 1, Section 26, USDA, ACS, Wash., DC, Revised January 1993.

* Cotton ginning cooperatives were reclassified from marketing to service.

3 Livestock shipping associations were reclassified from marketing to service.

4,494

4,315

2
Figure 2-Cooperatives Removed from ACS’s List, 1983-92

Number

140

120

100

80

60

40

20

0

1983 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91

I-I 0 Dissolutions

m Mergers

92

Based on a list of all U.S. farmer cooperatives maintained by the Agricultural Cooperative Service. Mergers also include

consolidations. Other includes cooperatives dropped due to inactivity and unknown and miscellaneous reasons.

Table 2- Memberships in marketing, farm supply, and service cooperatives, 1983-92

Period 1 Marketing Farm supply Service Total

1,000 Percent. 7,000 Percent. 1,000 Percent. 1,000

1983 2,308 46.6 2,553 51.5 95 1.9 4,955

1984 2,317 47.9 2,397 49.5 128 2.6 4,842

1985 2,214 46.3 2,398 50.2 169 3.5 4,781

1986 2,140 46.5 2,310 50.2 150 3.3 4,600

1987 2,026 45.6 2,282 51.4 132 3.0 4,440

1988 1,912 45.6 2,142 51.1 141 3.4 4,195

1989 2 1,856 44.9 2,035 49.2 243 5.9 4,134

1990 1,882 45.7 2,006 48.7 232 5.6 4,119

1991 1,842 45.4 2,025 49.9 191 4.7 4,058

19923 1,839 45.2 2,020 49.6 212 5.2 4,072

1 For years before 1983, see Cooperative Historical Statistics, CIR 1, Section 26, USDA, ACS, Wash., DC, Revised January 1993.

2 Cotton ginning cooperatives included as service cooperatives. Previously, they were classified as marketing cooperatives.

3 Livestock shipping associations were reclassified from marketing to service.

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Figure 3- Memberships in Farmer Cooperatives, 1983-92

-I l-l l-t H I1983 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92

Selected Service

Farm Supply

Marketing

Figure 4-Cooperatives’ Net Business Volume, 1983-92

Billion dollars

80

75

70

65

60

55

50 I I I I I I I I I I

1983 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92

Real sales were adjusted by price changes based on 1983 = 100.

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Table 3- Cooperatives’ net business volume, 1983

and 1992 1

Function

Net Volume

1983 1992

Million dollars

Products marketed:

Beans and peas (dry edible) 81.6

Cotton 1,721.5

Dairy 16,765.6

Fruits and vegetables 4,241.3

Grains and oilseeds 2 16,218.0

Livestock 4,768.0

Nuts 826.7

Poultry 1,043.2

Rice 864.7

Sugar 1,682.5

Tobacco 393.6

Wool and mohair 29.2

Other products 707.7

Total farm products 49,343.6

265.4

2,076.6

20,238.6

7,591.0

15,223.3

4,938.5

916.3

1,216.2

771.6

2,225.7

415.5

19.0

32,298.3

58,195.g

Supplies purchased:

Farm chemicals

Feed

Fertilizer

Petroleum

Seed

Other supplies

Total farm supplies

1,250.2 2,097.g

3,594.l 4,554.l

2,837.2 3,708.l

5,433.a 4,775.2

483.1 610.5

2,344.6 2,766.6

15,943.0 18,512.5

Services provided:

Trucking, cotton ginning,

storage, grinding, locker

plants, mist 1,468.3 2,575.3

Total business 663754.8 79,283.7

1 Excludesintercooperative businessvolume.Totalsmay not add

due to rounding.

* Excludescottonseed.

3 Includes value of processed oilseeds.

Though many farmers maintained membership in more than one cooperative, nearly 20.5 percent did not actively patronize their cooperatives,

down from 21.3 percent in 1991.

Yearly membership figures often vary widely

for cooperatives participating in price stabilization

programs such as cotton, peanuts, or tobacco.

Member classification is affected also by the

diversity of services offered by cooperatives. For

example, a member may use a cooperative to market only one of the farm products handled by the

cooperative, or a member may use a cooperative

classified in the marketing group only for purchasing one or more types of production supplies. The

member’s business with the cooperative, therefore,

may not be in the group that represents the cooperative’s major business volume (the criteria for classifying cooperatives in this report). The membership, however, will be included arbitrarily in that

classification.

Business Volume

Net cooperative business, unadjusted for

changes in the price level, increased from $66.8 billion in 1983 to $79.3 billion in 1992 (table 3).

Adjusted for price changes 2, net cooperative business totaled $72.2 billion in 1992 (figure 4). Lower

real prices in 1985-87 caused cooperatives’ net business volume in real terms to be higher than the

actual.

Four major commodity groups-dairy, grains

and oilseeds excluding cottonseed, fruits and vegetables, and livestock--decreased from 85 percent

of all products marketed in 1983 to 82.5 percent in

1992. Grains and oilseeds (excluding cottonseed)

showed a significant decrease-from 32.9 to 26.2

percent. Dairy and fruits and vegetables as a percentage of total cooperative business increased

from 31.4 percent in 1983 to 35.1 percent in 1992.

Trends in cooperatives’ sales of these major

commodity groups for 1983-92 are shown in figure

5. Grains and oilseeds sales show the largest variation during this time period.

In the farm supply group, petroleum, fertilizer, and feed were especially important. They

2 Marketing sales was deflated by the index of prices

received for all farm products and 1983 = 100. Supply sales

and service receipts and other income were deflated by the

index of prices paid for all production items and 1983 = 100.

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Figure S- Cooperatives’ Sales of Selected Commodities, 1983-92

Billion dollars

25

Milk and Milk Products

20

15

10

5

0

Grains and Oilseeds

I I I I I I I I I I

1983 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92

Excludes intercooperative business.

Figure 6 Cooperatives’ Sales of Farm Supplies, 1983-92

Billion dollars

6

I I I I I I I I I I

1983 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92

Seed

Excludes intercooperative business.

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accounted for 74.4 percent of the total production

supply business in 1983 and 70.4 percent in 1992.

From 1983-92, petroleum sales varied but the

trend showed decline (Figure 6). Feed sales reached

a low point in 1986. Fertilizer and chemical sales

bottomed out in 1987. After those years, sales of

feed, fertilizer, and chemicals have gone up. Seed

sales, however, have plateaued.

Marketing of farm products reached $54.6 billion in 1984, bottomed at $41.5 billion in 1986 and

set a record at $58.2 billion in 1992 (table 4).

Combined sales of farm supplies were steadier over

the period. Sales were $15.9 billion in 1983 and $18.5

billion in 1992 compared with a low of $14.3 billion

in 1987. Beginning in 1990, service receipts was

expanded to include other income and revenue.

Since 1983, gross business volume peaked in

1984 at $96.9 billion and was lowest in 1986 at $73

billion. Gross business volume of farm products

marketed ranged from 65.2 percent to 69.8 percent

of cooperatives’ total gross business volume. Net

business volume of farm products sold ranged

from 71.1 percent to 74.9 percent of cooperatives’

total net business volume.

The higher percentage of net business volume

from farm products marketed compared to the percentage of gross business volume from farm products marketed is the result of greater intercooperative business in the purchasing of farm supplies

than in the marketing of farm products.

Net Income

Net income of farmer cooperatives totaled

$1.4 billion in 1992, about the same as reported in

1990. From 1983-92, net income declined to $688

million in 1986 and a record of nearly $1.9 billion in

1989 (table 5 and figure 7).

Table 4- Gross and net business volume, 1983-92

Gross volume Net volume

(includes intercooperative business) (excludes intercooperative business)

Year 1

Farm Farm Farm Farm

products supplies Services 2 Total products supplies Services 2 Total

Billion dollars

1983 61.2 26.1 1.5

1984 67.6 27.7 1.5

1985 57.0 26.4 1.6

1986 47.6 23.6 1.8

1987 50.3 22.5 1.9

1988 56.2 24.0 1.9

1989 60.3 25.8 2.0

1990 64.1 26.3 2.3

1991 61.4 26.8 2.5

1992 63.8 27.0 2.6

88.7 49.3 15.9 1.5 66.8

96.9 54.6 17.0 1.5 73.0

85.1 47.3 16.6 1.6 65.6

73.0 41.5 15.1 1.8 58.4

74.7 44.2 14.3 1.9 60.3

82.1 49.1 15.4 1.9 66.4

88.1 53.2 16.9 2.0 72.1

92.7 57.8 17.1 2.3 77.3

90.8 56.2 17.9 2.5 76.6

93.4 58.2 18.5 2.6 79.3

Percent

1983 69.0 29.4 1.6 100 73.9 23.9 2.2 100

1984 69.8 28.6 1.6 100 74.7 23.2 2.1 100

1985 67.0 31.1 1.9 100 72.1 25.4 2.5 100

1986 65.2 32.4 2.4 100 71.1 25.9 3.0 100

1987 67.3 30.2 2.5 100 73.2 23.7 3.1 100

1988 68.4 29.2 2.4 100 73.9 23.2 2.9 100

1989 68.4 29.3 2.3 100 73.8 23.4 2.8 100

1990 69.1 28.4 2.5 100 74.9 22.1 3.0 100

1991 67.7 29.5 2.8 100 73.3 23.4 3.3 100

1992 68.3 29.0 2.8 100 73.4 23.4 3.2 100

’ For years prior to 1983, see Cooperative Historical Statistics, CIR 1, Section 26, USDA, ACS, Wash., DC, Revised January 1993. Data for

prior years are not entirely comparable due to revisions in statistical procedures.

* Services related to marketing or supply purchasing but not included in the volumes reported for these activities. Beginning with 1990, other

income and revenue were included with service receipts.

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Figure 7- Net Income of Farmer Cooperatives, 1983-92

Billion dollars

2.0 1

1.6

0.8

1983 84 85 86 87 88

Excludes cooperatives operating on a strictly pooling basis.

From Own

Operations

From Other

co-ops

Table 5- Net income of farmer cooperatives,

1983-92 1

Year

From other From own

cooperatives 2 operations Total

1983 193

1984 185

1985 210

1986 140

1987 63

1988 148

1989 308

1990 330

1991 381

1992 356

Million dollars Balance Sheet

863 1,055

824 1,009

566 775

548 688

1,423 1,486

1,532 1,680

1,543 1,851

1,110 1,440

1,189 1,570

1,084 1,440

1 Totals may not add due to rounding. Does not include income

from cooperative pooling operations.

* Dividends and patronage refunds received from other marketing,

farm supply, and related service cooperatives.

Net income from other cooperatives and from

own operations has varied during the decade,

reflecting the difficult economic times agriculture

faced in the mid-80s. In 1992, net income from

other cooperatives accounted for 24.7 percent of

total net income. This indicates the importance of

cooperatives working together.

From 1983-92, farmer cooperatives have made

some adjustments to their overall balance sheet.

Liabilities were reduced and net worth (member

and patron equity) was increased. In 1983, total

assets of all farmer cooperatives totaled $28.8 billion (table 6), but by 1986, dropped to a low of

$26.5 billion. Since then, however, cooperatives’

assets have been increasing. By 1992, total assets

reached a high of nearly $32 billion (figure 8).

In 1983, cooperatives’ net worth financed 40

percent of their total assets but climbed to 44.4 percent by 1992.

Investments in other cooperatives as a percent

of total assets appears to be declining. In the mid198Os, more than 10 percent of cooperatives’ total

assets were investments in other cooperatives.

From 1988-92, it averaged only 8.6 percent. In 1992,

investments in other cooperatives were only 7.6

percent of their total assets.
Figure 8-Assets of Farmer Cooperatives, 1983-92

Billion dollars

35

25

20

15

10

5

0

1983 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92

Liabilities

Net Worth

Table 6- Combined balance sheet data of farmer cooperatives, 1983-92

Year Total liabilities Net worth Total assets Investmentsin Assets from

otherco-ops own operations

Million dollars

1983 17,275 11,535 28,810 2,946 25,864

1984 17,001 12,181 29,182 2,981 26,201

1985 15,726 12,053 27,779 3,270 24,509

1986 14,601 11,895 26,496 2,857 23,639

1987 14,819 12,824 27,643 2,820 24,823

1988 16,461 12,825 29,286 2,762 26,524

1989 16,337 13,313 29,649 2,571 27,078

1990 16,575 13,449 30,024 2,869 27,155

1991 17,227 14,040 31,268 2,501 28,766

1992 17,780 14,213 31,994 2,422 29,572
Table a- Number of cooperatives headquartered in

State, 1992

Number of Cooperatives

The 1992 survey accounted for 4,315 marketing, farm supply, and related service 3 cooperatives,

compared with 4,494 in 1991. The net decrease of

179 associations (4.0 percent) largely reflected a

continuing trend involving dissolution, merger,

consolidation, or acquisition.

Of the 4,315 cooperatives, 2,218 primarily

marketed farm products, 1,618 handled farm production supplies, and 479 provided related services.

Comparing 1992 with 1991 shows that marketing cooperatives decreased from 53 to 51.4 percent

of the total number of cooperatives; farm supply

cooperatives decreased from 37.6 to 37.5 percent;

and related service cooperatives increased from 9.4

to 11.1 percent.

3 Services include trucking, cotton ginning, storage, drying,

artificial insemination, livestock shipping, and similar services affecting the form, quality, or location of farm products and supplies handled by cooperatives. They do not

include credit, electric, telephone, or other such services not

directly related to marketing or purchasing activities.

Table 7- Number of cooperatives, by major

business activity, 1992

Major business activity Cooperatives

Number

Beans and peas, dry edible 12

Cotton 18

Dairy 265

Fruits and vegetables 290

Grains and oilseeds excluding cottonseed 1,243

Livestock 95

Nuts 16

Poultry 13

Rice 23

Sugar 59

Tobacco 25

Wool and mohair 111

Miscellaneous 48

Total marketing 2,218

Farm supply 1,618

Service 479

Total 4,315

State Number

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

70

11

1::

61

Connecticut 4

Delaware 3

Florida 50

Georgia 15

Hawaii 33

Idaho 51

Illinois 230

Indiana 66

Iowa 286

Kansas 184

Kentucky 51

Louisiana 6 1

Maine 7

Maryland 16

Massachusetts 11

Michigan 88

Minnesota 411

Mississippi 100

Missouri 71

Montana 91

Nebraska 165

New Jersey 19

New Mexico 8

New York 151

North Carolina 29

North Dakota 291

Ohio 109

Oklahoma 122

Oregon 44

Pennsylvania 73

South Carolina 7

South Dakota 177

Tennessee 83

Texas 298

Utah 26

Vermont 7

Virginia 77

Washington 97

West Virginia 28

Wisconsin 253

Wyoming 18

Other I 4

1 Includes States where number of cooperatives was less than

three to avoid disclosure.

10
The percentage changes in number of cooperatives are due to some extent to the reclassification

of their dollar volume changes. In any given year,

sales of farm supplies or grains and oilseeds could

be higher due to market supply and demand conditions. Also, the reclassification of cotton ginning

and livestock shipping associations from marketing

to service significantly increased the percentage of

service cooperatives.

The number of cooperatives with the business

activity that consistently accounted for the largest

percent of their dollar volume for 1992 is shown in

table 7.

In table 8, the number of farmer cooperatives

is shown by State in which the cooperative maintained its headquarters.

Branches Operated by Grain and farm

Supply Cooperatives

Many cooperatives operate facilities at branch

locations, mostly owned with some leased, to serve

their members. A number of these facilities were at

one time independent cooperatives serving a local

community. For economic or other reasons, many

of these cooperatives were acquired, merged, or

consolidated with other cooperatives and operated

as branches-facilities to serve members and

patrons at outlying locations.

ACS collected information for the first time on

the number of branches cooperatives operated during their 1992 fiscal years. Results show that 2,861

grain and farm supply cooperatives operated an

estimated 4,182 branches. Grain cooperatives had

1,554 branches while farm supply cooperatives had

2,628 branches (table 9 and figure 9).

As shown in figure 9, several of the larger

cooperatives had more branches than a large number of the smaller cooperatives. For example, 13 of

the grain and farm supply cooperatives, or 0.5 percent, accounted for 33.5 percent of the total number

of branches operated by all grain and farm supply

cooperatives.

Memberships

Memberships in marketing, farm supply, and

related service cooperatives totaled 4,071,869 in

1992, up 0.3 percent from 4,058,570 in 1991 (table

10).

Nearly 50 percent of all memberships were

accounted for by farm supply cooperatives (figure

10). Grain cooperatives held 21.7 percent of the

memberships. Livestock, tobacco, and service coopFigure CI- Branches of Grain and Farm Supply Cooperatives, 1992

Number

2,500

Less than 5 5-9.9 1 o-24.9

Assets (million dollars)

25-l 99.9 200 or more

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Table 9- Number of branches operated by grain and farm supply cooperatives, 1992

Asset grouping

co-ops

Grain

Branches co-ops

Farm Supply.

Branches

Million dollars ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ________________ Number __ ________________________________________________________

Less than 5 902 313 1,332 659

5 - 9.9 211 414 176 419

10 - 4.9 114 445 45 199

25 - 199.9 12 59 56 275

200 or more 4 323 9 1,076

Total 1,243 1,554 1,618 2,628

eratives accounted for 19.7 percent of total memberships. Dairy cooperatives, which accounted for

nearly 25.5 percent of cooperatives’ net business

volume in 1992, held only 3 percent of cooperatives’ total memberships.

Business Size

Measured by annual gross business volume,

farmer cooperatives increased in size. Although

most remain small and primarily serve local areas,

several are seeking regional, national, or even

international markets to increase business volume.

The increased size of individual cooperatives

comes in part from mergers and consolidations.

However, data used were not adjusted for changes

in price levels, and some size changes resulted

from inflationary effects.

In 1992,83.1 percent of all farmer cooperatives

reported business volumes of less than $15 million.

They accounted for only 15.7 percent of the total

gross dollar volume (table 11 and figure 11). Only

Figure lo- Distribution of Memberships by Type of Cooperative, 1992

Farm Supply 49.6

Sugar 0.3

Tobacco 6.5

Poultry 0.7

Livestock 8.0

Dry Beans 0.1

Miscellaneous 0.3

Fruit & Vegetable 1.3

Related Service 5.2

I$-; A.22

Cotton’ 1 .O

Dairy 3.0

Wool 0.9

Grain 21.7

Percent based on 4,071,669 memberships.

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Table lo- Cooperative memberships, by major

business activity, 1992

Major business activity Memberships

Beans and peas, dry edible 3,716

Cotton 38,758

Dairy 123,779

Fruits and vegetables 51,410

Grains and oilseeds excluding cottonseed 882,762

Livestock 326,240

Nuts 50,373

Poultly 29,444

Rice 7,396

Sugar 13,705

Tobacco 263,625

Wool and mohair 37,731

Miscellaneous 10,009

Total marketing 1,838,948

Farm supply 2,020,465

Service 212,456

Total 4,071,869

Number

1.4 percent of farmer cooperatives reported business volumes of at least $250 million. These cooperatives, however, accounted for 54.5 percent of the

total sales, down from 55.2 percent in 1991.

The 100 largest cooperatives (usually operating over large geographic areas) are a very important segment. In 1992, these cooperatives accounted

for $51.2 billion 4 in business volume, 54.9 percent

of the total. These cooperatives, however, directly

and through member cooperatives serve a large

proportion of the total memberships.

Business Volume

Total gross business volume of 4,315 marketing, farm supply, and related service cooperatives

for 1992 was $93.4 billion (table 12), up 2.9 percent

from $90.8 billion in 1991.

Total net business volume of farmer cooperatives was $79.3 billion-$58.2 billion for farm products marketed, $18.5 billion for farm supplies purchased, and $2.6 billion for services performed and

4 Slnierl, Jim J. “Harvest States Becomes First Grain Co-op to

Reach Pinnacle of Top 100,” Farmer Cooperatives, Vol. 60, No.

7, October 1993, ACS, USDA, Washington, DC, p. 22.

Figure ii- Farmer Cooperatives Grouped by Business Volume, 1992

Percent of total

100

80

60

Cooperatives

Less than 15 15-49.9 50-249.9 250-499.9 500-999.9 1000 or more

Gross business volume (million dollars)

1 3
Table 1 l- Farmer cooperatives grouped by business volume, 1992 1

Volume group (mil. dol.)

Number

Cooperatives Dollar volume

Percent of total Gross *(mil. dol.) Percent of total

Less than $5.0 2,402 55.7 4,561 4.9

5 - 9.9 855 19.8 6,099 6.5

10 - 14.9 330 7.6 4,010 4.3

15 - 24.9 313 7.3 6,032 6.5

25 - 49.9 222 5.1 7,582 8.1

50 - 99.9 77 1.8 5,061 5.4

100 - 199.9 42 1.0 6,018 6.5

200 - 249.9 14 0.3 3,102 3.3

250 - 499.9 28 0.6 10,585 11.3

500 - 999.9 20 0.5 13,848 14.8

1,000 and more 12 0.3 26,512 28.4

Total 4,315 100.0 93,411 100.0

1 Business volume includes revenues from marketing plus the value of products bargained for or handled on a commission basis, supply

sales, service receipts, and other income.

2 Includes intercooperative business volume.

from other income. The total net figure of $79.3 billion, which excludes intercooperative business (the

difference between gross and net business volumes), represented an increase of 3.5 percent from

$76.6 billion in 1991. However, discounting for

price changes, net business volume increased 3.8

percent. 5

Gross volume of farm products marketed by

cooperatives increased 3.8 percent, from more than

$61.4 billion in 1991 to $63.8 billion in 1992. The net

volume of farm products marketed was $58.2 billion or 73.4 percent of the total net volume of cooperatives. The net marketing volume increased 3.5

percent from $56.2 billion.

Figure 12 illustrates the leading products marketed by cooperatives based on net marketing business volume. Dairy led with 34.8 percent, followed

by grains and oilseeds excluding cottonseed with

26.2 percent. Fruits and vegetables ranked third

with 13 percent of net marketing business volume.

5 Deflated cooperative business volume was $79.5 billion,

up 3.8 percent. This value was derived by deflating farm

products marketed by indices of producer prices and

processed foods and feeds and farm supplies (inputs) and

service income by the index of prices paid by farmers for

production items excluding interest, taxes, and wages.

Gross volume of all farm supplies handled by

cooperatives was $27 billion, up 0.9 percent from

$26.8 billion. Net farm supply volume of $18.5 billion accounted for 23.3 percent of the total net business volume, up 3.3 percent from $17.9 billion.

Sales of feed, fertilizer, farm chemicals, seed,

and other supplies were all up but petroleum sales

were down.

Figure 13 shows the leading farm supplies

handled by cooperatives in terms of net business

volume were petroleum, with 25.8 percent of the

total, followed by feed and fertilizer at 24.6 and 20

percent, respectively.

Receipts for services performed by marketing,

farm supply, and related service cooperatives

amounted to $2.6 billion, up 2.3 percent. Service

receipts represented 3.2 percent of total net business volume.

The 1991 estimated volume of farm products

marketed, farm supplies sold, and services provided by cooperatives is shown by State in appendix

table 2.

Net Income

Total net income, taking losses into account,

for all cooperatives in 1992 was $1.44 billion,

including intercooperative dividends and refunds

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Table l2- Cooperative business volume by commodity, 1992 l

Commodity Gross volume

(includes intercooperative business)

Net volume

(excludes intercooperative business)

Million dollars Percent Million dollars Percent

Products marketed:

Beans and peas (dry edible)

Cotton

Dairy

Fruits and vegetables

Grain and oilseeds

excluding cottonseed

Livestock

Nuts

Poultry

Rice

Sugar

Tobacco

Wool and mohair

Miscellaneous 3

265.4 0.3 265.4 0.3

2,214.5 2.4 2,076.6 2.6

22,204.4 23.8 20,238.6 25.5

8.240.4 8.8 7,591 .o 9.6

17,525.4 18.8 15,223.3 19.2

4,941.6 5.3 4,938.5 6.2

916.3 1.0 916.3 1.2

1,473.g 1.6 1,216.2 1.5

772.7 0.8 771.6 1.0

2,459.6 2.6 2,225.7 2.8

415.5 0.4 415.5 0.5

32.1 (‘) 19.0 (‘1

2,327.g 2.5 2.298.3 2.9

Total farm products 63,789.6

Supplies purchased:

Farm chemicals

Feed

Fertilizer

Petroleum

Seed

Other supplies 4

2,876.2 3.1

6,148.5 6.6

6,115.5 6.6

7,620.l 8.2

793.2 0.9

3,492.g 3.7

Total farm supplies 27,046.3

Services provided:

Trucking, cotton ginning,

storage, grinding, locker

plants, mist 5 2,575.3

Total business 93,411.2

68.3 58.195.9 73.4

2,097.g 2.7

4,554.l 5.7

3,708.l 4.7

4,775.2 6.0

610.5 0.8

2,766.6 3.5

29.0 18,512.5 23.4

2.8

100.0

52,575.3

79,283.7

3.2

100.0

1 Totals may not add due to rounding.

2 Less than 0.05 percent.

3 Includes coffee, fish, forest products, hay, hops, seed marketed for growers, nursery stock, other farm products not separately classified, and

sales of farm products not received directly from member-patrons. Also includes manufactured food products and resale items marketed by

cooperatives.

4 Includes building materials, containers and packaging supplies, fan machinery and equipment, meats and groceries, automotive supplies,

hardware, chicks, and other supplies not separately classified.

5 Charges for services related to marketing or purchasing but not included in the volume reported for those activities, plus other income.

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Figure 12- Relative Importance of Major Farm Products Marketed by Cooperatives, 1992

Grains 8 Oilseeds 26.2

Dairy 34.8

- Poultry 2.1

. . . . . . . . . . ..CC................

r / / / / / / / / /we

-Other 4.0

Percent based on a net marketing business volume of $58.2 billion.

Livestock 0.5

- Fruits 8 Vegetable

Cotton 3.6

s 13.0

Figure 13- Relative Importance of Major Farm Supplies Handled by Cooperatives, 1992

Other Supplies 15.0

Feed 24.6

0 0 0 0

0 0 l 0

0 0 0 0 0

-Seed 3.3

Petroleum 25.8 -

Fertilizer 20.0

Chemicals 11.3

Percent based on a net farm supply business volume of $18.5 billion

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(table 13). No net income is included for those

cooperatives operating strictly on a pooling basis.

Net income was down 8.3 percent from the 1991

total of $1.57 billion. Net income or patronage

refunds from other cooperatives of $355.9 million

was down 6.5 percent from $380.8 million.

Marketing cooperatives’ net income of $780.7

million was down 3.7 percent from the $810.3 million generated in 1991. Cooperatives handling primarily grains and oilseeds, milk and milk products,

and fruits and vegetables accounted for the largest

percent of marketing cooperatives’ net income (80.8

percent). Grain cooperatives accounted for 35.5

percent, dairy 25.9 percent, and fruit and vegetable

cooperatives 19.5 percent.

Farm supply cooperatives accounted for 40.7

percent of cooperatives total net income in 1992.

Income from farm supply cooperatives’ own operations totaled $404.6 million compared with $442.9

million in 1991. Income from other cooperatives of

$182.2 million was also down from $196.2 million.

Farmer cooperatives’ net income from own

operations in 1992 totaled $1,084.4 million-down

8.8 percent from $1,189.2 million. More than 24.7

percent, or $355.9 million, of total net income was

generated from other cooperatives. Marketing

cooperatives’ net income from other cooperatives

totaled $162.5 million and accounted for 20.8 percent of their total. Grain cooperatives’ net income

from other cooperatives was $106.4 million or 38.4

percent of their total.

Income before losses equaled $1,612.8 million.

Losses from an estimated 815 cooperatives totaled

$172.5 million in 1992. This compares with $115.7

million in 1991, $120.8 million in 1990, and $82.4

million in 1989.

Balance Sheet

Combined assets for all farmer cooperatives

totaled $32 billion in 1992, up 2.3 percent from

$31.3 billion for 1991 (table 14). Assets of cooperatives, excluding intercooperative investments,

totaled $29.6 billion compared with $28.8 billion, a

2.8-percent increase (table 15).

Total liabilities were $17.8 billion, up 3.2 percent from the $17.2 billion reported in 1991. Net

worth, or member and patron equity, was $14.2 bilTable 13- Farmer cooperatives’ net income, 1992 1

Principal products marketed

co-ops 2 Total net income Income from Income from

and major function own operations other co-ops 1

Number -______-______________________ Million do//are _________ _______ _______________

Products marketed:

Cotton 18 73.4 72.6 0.6

Dairy 265 202.0 156.7 43.3

Fruits 8 vegetables 290 152.3 144.1 8.2

Grains and oilseeds

excluding cottonseed 1,243 277.0 170.6 106.4

Livestock and poultry 108 -6.1 -8.3 2.2

Rice 23 20.4 20.3 0.1

Sugar 59 24.6 24.6 -0.1

Other products 4 212 37.3 35.7 1.6

Total farm products 2,218 780.7 616.3 162.5

Total farm supplies 1,618 586.7 404.6 162.2

Total related services 479 72.8 61.5 11.3

Combined total 4,315 1,440.3 1,084.4 355.9

1 Number of cooperatives includes those operating on a pooling rather than net margin basis. Totals may not add due to rounding.

* Many cooperatives are multiproduct and multifunctional in operations and classified in most cases according to predominant commodity or

function indicated by business volume.

3 Excludes dividends and patronage refunds from CoBank and Banks for Cooperatives.

4 Includes dry edible beans and peas, nuts, tobacco, wool, and miscellaneous products.

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Table 14- Combined balance sheet data for farmer cooperatives, 1992 1

Principal products marketed

and major function co-ops *

Total

assets

Total

liabilities

Net

worth

Products marketed:

Cotton

Dairy

Fruits & vegetables

Grains and oilseeds

excluding cottonseed

Livestock and poultry

Rice

Sugar

Other products 3

Number ______ ________ _____ _______Mj//j~n do//aB _____________ ____ _________

18 612.3 337.3 275.0

265 4,528.3 2,826.7 1,701.6

290 4,234.4 2,799.1 1,435.3

1,243 7,150.g 3,509.g 3,640.g

108 1,041.2 621.1 420.1

23 182.9 110.8 72.1

59 891.7 516.7 375.0

212 975.8 567.4 408.4

Total farm products 2,218 19,617.6 11,289.l 8,328.5

Total farm supplies 1,618 11,725.6 6,311.7 5,413.8

Total selected services 479 650.4 179.6 470.8

Combined total 4,315 31,993.6 17,780.5 14,213.l

1 Totals may not add due to rounding.

* Many cooperatives are multiproduct and multifunctional in operations and classified in most cases according to predominant commodity or

function indicated by business volume.

’ Includes dry edible beans and peas, nuts, tobacco, wool, and miscellaneous products.

Table 15- Combined assets of farmer cooperatives, 1992 1

Principal products

marketed and

major function

co-ops 2

Assets

of own

operations

Investments

in other

co-ops

Total assets

Investments

in other co-ops

as percent of

total

Number -------___________________ Mil/io” dollars ___________________________ Percent

Products marketed:

Cotton

Dairy

Fruits & vegetables

Grains and oilseeds

excluding cottonseed

Livestock and poultry

Rice

Sugar

Other products 3

18 609.0 3.4 612.3 0.6

265 4,317.7 210.5 4,528.3 4.6

290 4,180.7 53.8 4,234.4 1.3

1,243 6,322.1 828.8 7,150.g 11.6

108 1,013.l 28.2 1,041.2 2.7

23 180.9 2.1 182.9 1.1

59 883.6 8.1 891.7 0.9

212 957.6 18.2 975.8 1.9

Total farm products

Total farm supplies

Total selected services

Combined total

2,218 18,464.7 1,153.0 19.617.6 5.9

1,618 10,520.6 1,205.O 11.725.6 10.3

479 586.6 63.7 650.4 9.8

4,315 29,571.g 2,421.7 31,993.6 7.6

1 Totals may not add due to rounding.

2 Many cooperatives are multiproduct and multifunctional in operations and classified in most cases according to predominant commodity or

function indicated by business volume.

3 Includes dry edible beans and peas, nuts, tobacco, wool, and miscellaneous products.

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lion, up 1.2 percent from $14 billion in 1991. The

proportion of total assets financed by member and

patron equity dropped from 44.9 percent to 44.4

percent.

Of the $32 billion in total assets, marketing

cooperatives accounted for $19.6 billion, about the

same as reported for 1991. Cooperatives whose

principal products were grains and oilseeds

excluding cottonseed had total assets of $7.2 billion

in 1992 and $7 billion in 1991, a 1.7-percent

increase. Among the marketing cooperatives, grain

cooperatives also maintained the largest proportion

of investments in other cooperatives in both 1992

(11.6 percent) and 1991 (11.1 percent).

Assets of marketing cooperatives, excluding

investments in other cooperatives, were $18.5 billion, about the same as in 1991.

Farm supply cooperatives had total assets of

more than $11.7 billion compared with $11 .l billion

in 1991. Excluding intercooperative investments,

assets amounted to $10.5 billion in 1992, up 8 percent from 1991.

Net worth, or member and patron equity, for

all marketing cooperatives totaled $8.3 billion,

down 0.3 percent from 1991. Marketing cooperatives accounted for 58.6 percent of farmer cooperatives’ combined net worth. Farm supply cooperatives accounted for 38.1 percent. The highest

percent of total assets represented by net worth for

all marketing cooperatives (50.9 percent) was for

those primarily marketing grains and oilseeds

excluding cottonseed. The lowest, 33.9 percent, was

for cooperatives primarily marketing fruits and

vegetables. Cooperatives classified as farm marketing and farm supply had 42.5 and 46.2 percent,

respectively.

Selected Ratios

Financial ratios are often used to measure

cooperative performance. Table 16 lists selected

ratios for cooperatives reporting to ACS. For the

predominant types of cooperatives-dairy, fruit

and vegetable, grain, and farm supply-ratios are

also shown for cooperatives by selected asset categories. These ratios offer cooperative leaders a general barometer to use in comparing their operations

with others of the same type (and size in some

cases).

The small fruit and vegetable cooperatives

had a high return on assets due to a few small ones

that generated income with minimal assets.

Generally, the return on assets (net

income/assets) varied but decreased somewhat as

size of cooperatives increased. The net-worth-toassets ratio was highest among the smaller farm

supply cooperatives. However, as cooperatives

become larger, a declining proportion of their

assets was financed by members.

The return on sales (net income/total sales)

ranged from a -8.5 percent for service cooperatives

to a high of 11.5 percent for cooperatives handling

other (miscellaneous) products. However, the average for most cooperatives ranged somewhere

between 1 and 3 percent.

The sales-to-assets ratio or assets turnover

ranged from 1.6 for cotton gins to 32.9 for nut cooperatives. Among dairy and fruit and vegetable

cooperatives, the ratio, in most cases, decreased as

size of cooperative increased. Generally, this indicates large investments in processing or manufacturing equipment which would be true of the larger dairy and fruit and vegetable cooperatives. The

sales-to-assets ratios for grain and farm supply

cooperatives did not change as much as size of

cooperative increased. Most grain and farm supply

cooperatives are not involved as much in manufacturing or processing as the dairy and fruit and vegetable cooperatives.

The high sales-to-assets ratio for the smaller

cooperatives as well as for some types of cooperatives is due to their involvement in bargaining or

other marketing functions not requiring major

investments in plant and equipment.

Agricultural Cooperative Service (ACS) follows four major criteria in identifying an organization as a farmer cooperative: (1) Membership is

limited to persons producing agricultural and

aquacultural products and associations of such

producers; (2) cooperative members are limited to

one vote despite the amount of stock or membership capital owned, or the cooperative does not pay

dividends on stock or membership capital in excess

of 8 percent a year, or the legal rate in the State,

whichever is higher; (3) business conducted with

nonmembers may not exceed the value of business

with members; and (4) the cooperative operates for

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Table 16- Selected ratios for cooperatives, 19921

Type of co-op and Net income/ Net worth/ Net income/ Sales/

range of assets (Million) assets 2 assets3 sales’ assets’

____________------_--__------- Percent------------------------------

Beans and peas (dry edible)

Cotton

2.5

3.4

Dairy

Less than $0.5 5

$0.5 - $.99

$1 .o - $2.49

$2.5 - $24.99

$25.0 - $99.99

$100.0 - $499.99

7.0

10.0

8.4

6.8

7.1

4.1

4.4

Fruit and vegetable

Less than $0.5 5

$0.5 - $.99

$1 .o - $2.49

$2.5 - $24.99

$25.0 - $99.99

$100.0 - $499.99

More than $500.00

7.2 48.8 3.4

15.7 46.4 7.4

6.3 45.9 1.7

5.9 49.7 2.7

4.7 52.2 .7

7.3 52.9 1.6

5.9 37.5 1.1

7.7 42.3 2.1

5.5 45.7 1.3

6.5 46.7 2.1

5.4 43.6 2.4

5.1 61.3 .3

9.5 58.5 2.9

8.7 46.2 2.4

3.9 35.2 2.1

2.0 33.4 2.1

4.8

6.0

11.6

6.3

3.8

4.0

1.8

1.8

Grains and oilseeds 3.2 55.7 1.0

Less than $0.5 3.9 53.5 -7.0

$0.5 - $.99 2.3 74.3 .3

$1 .o - $2.49 2.7 61.8 .9

$2.5 - $24.99 3.7 53.2 1.3

$25.0 - $99.99 1.6 39.5 .6

$100.0 - $499.99 4.6 51.5 1.7

More than $500.00 6.9

3.2

3.6

6.4

3.5

3.0

2.3

3.3

Livestock 4.6 59.2 .6 24.0

Nuts 5.4 50.2 6.6 32.9

Poultry 3.8 38.1 1.3 5.4

Rice 7.3 57.4 8.4 10.0

Sugar 2.0 52.1 1.2 2.6

Tobacco 12.6 75.6 3.7 14.5

Wool and mohair 13.0 88.2 -2.0 25.4

Other products 23.4 54.0 11.5 4.0

Farm supply 6.1 67.1 2.8 2.5

Less than $0.5 4.0 72.5 1.8 4.3

$0.5 - $.99 6.0 71.9 2.5 2.4

$1 .o - $2.49 6.6 72.2 3.0 2.3

$2.5 - $24.99 6.2 61.9 3.0 2.3

$25.0 - $99.99 5.3 44.5 2.0 2.8

$100.0 - $499.99 5.9 43.0 3.2 2.1

More than $500.00 4.5 39.8 3.2 1.8

Service 7.2 68.4 -8.5 27.1

Cotton gins 11.1 67.9 11.0 1.6

Number

1 Based on cooperatives reporting. Excludes strictly bargaining or pooling cooperatives. Ratios were calculated by summing the individual

ratios and dividing by the number of cooperatives.

2 Includes net income before any income taxes are deducted.

3 Net worth or member equity is the value of the assets owned by members.

’ Total sales includes service receipts and other income and patronage refunds received from other cooperatives and CoBank and Banks for

Cooperatives.

S Some of the smaller cooperatives generated income with minimal assets.

6 Excludes cottonseed.

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the mutual interest of members by providing benefits on the basis of patronage.

These criteria may create larger or smaller

numbers of farmer cooperatives than found in lists

or directories of State agencies or cooperative councils. ACS includes only marketing, farm supply,

and selected service cooperatives on its list. Wool

pools are included as marketing cooperatives.

Livestock shipping associations, beginning with

1992, are considered service cooperatives.

Many State lists include other types such as

production, credit, telephone, electric, and consumer cooperatives as well as those that do not fulfill ACS’s definition. Other reasons for possible differences in the number of cooperatives is that: (1)

ACS may not learn of certain cooperatives operating in a State for a considerable period of time; (2)

a cooperative may not have completed and

returned an initial questionnaire; or (3) no notice is

received that a cooperative discontinued operating.

Year-to-year comparisons with specific commodity groups, therefore, should reflect any differences in lists and classifications in State and

Federal data.

Classification of Cooperatives

Statistics are presented according to a cooperative’s major function or classification-marketing,

farm supply, and related service.

Marketing cooperatives’ primary business is

marketing farm products for members-more than

50 percent of total dollar volume was derived from

the sale of members’ farm products. Marketing

cooperatives are further classified according to

which commodity of 13 classifications is predominant (in terms of dollar volume) in each association’s business. If a cooperative consistently indicates it is handling a larger volume of a commodity

than originally organized to handle, and which

provided the basis for its initial classification, it is

reclassified by the commodity currently representing the predominant product in its business volume.

Farm supply cooperatives derive at least half

their business volume from the sale of farm production supplies.

These cooperatives handle a wide variety of

farm production supplies, farmstead equipment,

and building supplies. Some also handle farm and

home items such as heating oil, lawn and garden

supplies and equipment, and food.

Service cooperatives provide specialized business services related to the agricultural business

operations of farmers, ranchers, or cooperatives

such as cotton ginning, trucking, storing, drying,

and artificial insemination. Beginning with 1992,

livestock shipping associations were included.

Many cooperatives handle more than one

commodity and provide both marketing and farm

supply services, as well as facilities and equipment

to perform related services such as storing, drying,

and trucking. These associations are classified

according to the predominant commodity or function as indicated by their business volume.

Information on other types of service cooperatives such as Farm Credit System institutions, rural

credit unions, rural electric cooperatives, and dairy

herd improvement associations are presented separately.

Organizational Membership Structures

Centralized

Of the 4,315 farmer cooperatives in 1992,4,193

were centralized organizations with individual

farmer-members. Centralized cooperatives usually

serve a local area or community, county, or several

counties. Most usually perform a limited number

of initial marketing. Most farm supply sales are at

the retail level. A few centralized cooperatives

operate over large geographic areas and have

members in several States. They often provide

more vertically integrated services such as processing farm products or manufacturing feed and fertilizer.

Bargaining associations also have centralized

organizational structures. These associations derive

all or most of their business volume from negotiating with distributors, processors, and other buyers

and sellers over price, quantity, grade, terms of

sale, and other factors involved in marketing farm

products. Only a few bargain to purchase farm

supplies. While the primary function of such an

association is to bring buyers and sellers together

to contract for the sale of members’ products, many

bargaining associations now perform additional

functions. For example, dairy bargaining associations at one time only negotiated price. Now, many

perform additional functions, such as physically

handling part of the milk and making spot sales for

patrons. Bargaining associations, like other dairy

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marketing cooperatives, represent their members at

Federal or State milk marketing order hearings.

Federated

Federated cooperatives comprise two or more

member associations organized to market farm

products, purchase production supplies, or perform bargaining functions.

Associations often operate at points quite distant from federation headquarters. Seventy-five

federated cooperatives have been identified.

Individual farmers are not members of strictly federated associations. Rather, they are members of

cooperatives that comprise the federation-sometimes called a regional cooperative. Also, some federations are made up of regional cooperativesoften called interregional associations.

Mixed

A small number of cooperatives have both

individual farmer-members and autonomous cooperative members. These associations, combine centralized and federated structures, serve large geographic areas with members in many States, and

provide a variety of integrated services. ACS has

identified 47 cooperatives with a “mixed” structure.

Other types of service cooperatives were operating in 1992 besides those directly related to marketing and purchasing.

Farm Credit System

“The Farm Credit System (FCS) is a nationwide system of lending institutions and affiliated

service and other entities. Through its Banks and

Associations, the System provides credit and related services to farmers, ranchers, producers and

harvesters of aquatic products, rural homeowners,

certain farm-related businesses, agricultural and

aquatic cooperatives (or to other entities for the

benefit of such cooperatives) and rural utilities and

to certain foreign or domestic entities in connection

with international transactions.“6

The FCS includes Federal Land Bank

Associations (FLBAs), Production Credit

Associations (PCAs), Agricultural Credit

Associations (ACAs), Federal Land Credit

Associations (FLCAs), Farm Credit Banks (FCBs),

and Banks for Cooperatives (BCs).

6 Farm Credit System, Annual Information Statement-1992,

Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation, Jersey

City, NJ, p. 3.

Table 17- Farm Credit System combined assets, net worth, and net income,l986-92’

Year Assets Net worth

Million dollars

Net income (loss)

1986 70,100.6 5,641 .O (1,912.8)

1987 62,238.5 5,030.l (17.5)

1988 61,616.2 5,300.7 704.4

1989 63,953.g 5,440.5 695.0

1990 63,515.0 5,840.2 608.3

1991 62,503.6 6,399.2 810.9

1992 63,197.1 7,213.8 986.3

1 As of December 31 of each year. Data for 1986, 1987, and 1988 were taken from Farm Credit Administration Annual Repoti, 7989, Farm

Credit Administration, McLean, VA. Data for 1989-92 were taken from Farm Credit System, Annual information Statement,. Federal Farm

Credit Banks Funding Corporation, Jersey City, NJ.

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In 1992, the combined assets of FCS totaled are shown by farm credit district in table 18. Of sig-

$63.2 billion-up 1.1 percent from $62.5 billion in nificance during 1992 was the merger of the St.

1991 (table 17). Net worth totaled $7.2 billion and Louis and St. Paul farm credit districts to form the

net income was $986.3 million in 1992. AgriBank district. A map showing States in each

Numbers of selected farm credit cooperatives district appears as figure 14.

Table 18- Number and structure of selected farm credit cooperatives, January 1,19931

District Federal Land Bank Production Credit Agricultural Credit Federal Land Credit

Associations (FLBA) Associations (PCA) Associations (ACA) Associations (FLCA)

Springfield

Baltimore

Columbia

Louisville

Jackson

AgriBank

Omaha

Wichita

Texas

Western

Spokane

Total

2

2 20

1 1

22 18

48 17

4 12

77 70

Number

12

16

19

5

12 18

4 9

1

69 27

- None located in the district.

1 The Farm Credit System Structure also includes three Banks for Cooperatives-National Bank for Cooperatives (CoBank), the Springfield

(MA) Bank for Cooperatives, and the St. Paul (MN) Bank for Cooperative*and 10 Farm Credit Banks not included in this table.

Source: Risk Analysis of Farm Credit System Operations and Economic Outlook, Quarter Ended December 37, 1992, Farm Credit

Administration, McLean, VA, p. 20.

Figure 14-- Cooperative Farm Credit Districts, 1992

1 Springfield

2 Baltimore

(includes Puerto Rico)

3 Columbia

4 Louisville

5 Jackson

6 AgriBank

7 Omaha

8 Wichita

9 Texas

10 Western

(includes Hawaii)

11 Spokane

(includes Alaska)

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Federal Land Bank Associations

The FLBAs serve as agents for originating and

servicing long-term loans made by FCBs. The proceeds of long-term loans are used for the purchase

of agricultural real estate and rural homes and refinancing agricultural real estate and rural home

mortgages. FLBAs dropped from 85 to 77 in 1992

(table 18) primarily due to conversion to FLCAs.

FLCAs are FLBAs that were granted direct lending

authority by their FCB.

Federal Land Credit Associations

Of the 27 FLCAs operating in 1992,18 were

located in the AgriBank district. FLCAs were

authorized by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987.

Production Credit Associations

PCAs provide farmers and ranchers shortand intermediate-term loans for various purposes,

such as operating expenses, farm equipment, livestock, farm buildings, and other capital improvements.

PCAs numbers declined from 72 to 70. The

AgriBank district accounted for 20 PCAs.

Agricultural Credit Associations

ACAs resulted from the merger of FLBAs with

PCAs. ACAs offer both long- and short-term loans.

Sixty-nine ACAs were operating in 1992. The

districts with the most ACAs were Columbia (19)

and Baltimore (16).

Farm Credit Banks

The FCBs provide loan funds and support services to FLBAs, ACAs, FLCAs, and PCAs within

their district territories.

Combined assets of the Farm Credit Banks

totaled $47.7 billion in 1992, up from $47.4 billion

in 1991 (table 19). Net worth was $6.6 billion and

net loans totaled $39 billion. Net income was $722

million in 1992, up $138 million from 1991.

Banks for Cooperatives

There are three BCs-CoBank (National Bank

for Cooperatives), headquartered in Denver,

Colorado, the St. Paul Bank, based in Minnesota,

and the Springfield Bank, based in Massachusetts.

The BCs provide short, intermediate, and longterm credit to agricultural cooperatives and rural

utilities nationwide. CoBank also provides international credit services to finance the export of

American agricultural products.

Assets of the BCs totaled $14.6 billion on Dec.

31,1992 (table 20). The combined net worth of

nearly $1,064 million financed 7.3 percent of the

banks’ combined assets. The combined net loans of

the BCs totaled $11.7 billion, up 3.6 percent from

$11.3 billion in 1991. Net income in 1992 totaled

Table 19- Farm Credit Banks combined assets, net worth, net loans, and net income, 1986-92 l

Year Assets Net worth Net loans Net income (loss)

Million dollars

1986 59,888.g 3,806.5 49,310.5 (1,405.4)

1987 50,432.l 3,368.g 42,629.6 (127.9)

1988 47,843.7 3,975.7 40,956.l 749.5

1989 48,515.g 3.706.7 39,476.7 516.1

1990 47,231.3 4,203.3 38,922.1 264.3

19912 47,362.7 6,096.O 38,525.1 583.8

1992 47,729.6 6,620.4 39,011.2 721.5

‘As of December 31 of each year. The Fan-n Credit Banks resulted from the mergers of the Federal Land Banks and Federal Intermediate

Credit Banks on July 6, 1988.

* Revised.

Source: Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation, Jersey City, NJ, and Farm Credit Administration, McLean, VA.

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Table 20- Banks for Cooperatives combined assets, net worth, net loans, and net income, 1986-92 1

Year Assets Net worth Net loans Net income

Million dollars

1986 9,811 .O 1,074.4 7,401.8 0.5

1987 11,138.0 1,034.g 8,245.5 79.8

1988 13,174.g 1,008.3 10,067.3 85.8

1989 13,945.8 946.1 10,548.l 106.3

1990 14,459.6 933.3 11,150.7 71.8

1991 2 14,485.5 986.0 11,315.5 119.9

1992 14,577.4 1,063.5 11,724.g 160.7

1 As of December 31 of each year.

2 Revised.

Source: Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation, Jersey City, NJ and Farm Credit Administration, McLean, VA.

$160.7 million, up 34 percent from $119.9 million in members (24.9 percent) and in savings (29.6 per1991. cent).

Rural Telephone Cooperatives Dairy Herd Improvement Associations

There were 242 rural telephone cooperatives

borrowing from the Rural Electrification

Administration (REA) with revenues of $967 million and 1,265,OOO subscriber members. Iowa with

32 had the largest number of cooperatives (13.2

percent of the total), while South Carolina accounted for more subscriber memberships (10.3 percent)

than any other State (table 21). Texas led all States

in revenue with 13.2 percent of the total.

Dairy Herd Improvement Associations

(DHIA) had 30,025 memberships. The DHIA’s tested more than 3.1 million cows. New York (1,956),

Pennsylvania (2,837), Minnesota (4,403), and

Wisconsin (5,388) combined accounted for 48.6 percent of total members. About 687,000, or 21.1 percent, of the cows tested were in California.

Rural Electric Cooperatives

The Nation’s 893 rural electric cooperatives

reported 11.3 million consumer members and revenue of $23 billion. Texas led all States, with 8 percent of total associations, while Georgia led with

the most consumer members (9.8 percent) and revenue (10.6 percent).

Rural Credit Unions

The 720 rural credit unions reported nearly 3.5

million members and savings of $11.9 billion.

Wisconsin led all States in number of associations

(10.4 percent) while California led in number of

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Table 2l- Number, participation, and level of activity of selected service cooperatives by State 1

Rural telephone cooperatives *

State Cooperatives

Members

(subscribers)Revenue State Cooperatives

Members

(subscribers)

Revenue

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois 7 24 17 Pennsylvania

Indiana 8 29 20 South Carolina

Iowa 32 58 38 South Dakota

Kansas 11 55 53 Tennessee

Kentucky 8 85 47 Texas

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Number 1,000

5 8 7

4 26 15

3 9 6

19 69 47

8

8

5

23

45

3

7

45

37

9

Mil. dol.

14

55

5

6

32

43

6

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

5 18 35

North Carolina 9 115 57

North Dakota 10 52 44

Ohio 7 7 4

Oklahoma 2 39 41

Oregon 9 38 28

6 130 78

13 46 36

7 109 58

21 111 128

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

3 9 9

5 17 10

2 3 3

Wisconsin 11 38 24

Wyoming 1 1 1

United States 242 1,265 967

Number 1,000 Ml. dol.

Continued

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Table 2l- Number, participation, and level of activity of selected service cooperatives by State’ (Continued)

Ruralelectriccooperatives z

State

Members Members

Coopera- (con- Revenue State Coopera- (wn- Revenue

tives sumers) tives sumers)

Alabama 22 377 608 Nevada 3 18 41

Alaska 12 95 219 New Hampshire 1 65 78

Arizona 6 98 308 New Jersey 1 10 12

Arkansas 20 339 784 New Mexico 17 148 316

California 3 14 17 New York 4 14 12

Colorado 24 320 792 North Carolina 29 629 1,459

Delaware 1 47 49 North Dakota 26 105 838

Florida 15 524 1,079 Ohio 28 279 489

Georgia 43 1,113 2,441 Oklahoma 26 335 563

Idaho 8 47 62 Oregon 14 108 145

Illinois 27 196 537 Pennsylvania 13 179 318

Indiana 42 359 669 South Carolina 22 459 930

Iowa 47 178 404 South Dakota 33 111 192

Kansas 36 178 406 Tennessee 20 650 793

Kentucky 28 550 1,382 Texas 71 869 1,447

Louisiana 13 287 738 Utah 5 24 193

Maine 4 14 13 Vermont 3 22 34

Maryland 2 132 192 Virginia 13 324 441

Michigan 14 220 240 Washington 8 36 52

Minnesota 50 528 906 West Virginia 1 5 4

Mississippi 22 483 868

Missouri 46 479 1,167

Montana 25 101 139

Nebraska 3 8 97

Number 1,000 Mil. dol. Number 1,oOOd Mil. dol.

Wisconsin

Wyoming

29

13

United States 893

188

70

11,335

335

149

22,958

Continued

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Table 2% Number, participation, and level of activity of selected service cooperatives by State1 (Continued)

Rural credit unions 3

State CooperativesMembers Savings State Cooperatives

Members Savings

Alabama 11 20 60 Montana 13 5 1 165

Alaska 1 18 62 Nebraska 17 11 27

Arizona 4 12 24 Nevada 6 33 139

Arkansas 3 4 11 New Hampshire 2 1 1

California 68 870 3,526 New Jersey 6 11 19

Colorado 14 17 49 New Mexico 3 34 126

Connecticut 1 1 1 New York 30 145 519

Delaware 1 2 9 North Carolina 17 32 65

Florida 18 87 330 North Dakota 33 88 369

Georgia 15 31 68 Ohio 16 49 61

Hawaii 19 96 605 Oklahoma 4 5 27

Idaho 9 11 23 Oregon 11 6 1 215

Illinois 16 60 155 Pennsylvania 21 29 58

Indiana 20 52 327 Rhode Island 4 47 377

Iowa 9 7 16 South Carolina 4 9 30

Kansas 24 66 187 South Dakota 9

Kentucky 7 30 68 Tennessee 11

Louisiana 10 15 29 Texas 37

Maine 10 21 67 Utah 9

Maryland 6 46 186 Vermont 7

Massachusetts 8 10 15 Virginia 7

Michigan 29 358 794 Washington 16

Minnesota 41 176 521 West Virginia 4

Mississippi 4 6 12 Wisconsin 75

Missouri 8 17 37 Wyoming 2

12

13

100

12

11

39

139

4

520

2

3,491

3 1

32

304

30

23

118

531

8

i ,448

2

Number 1,000 Ml. dol. Number 1,000 Ml. dol.

United States 720 11,907

Continued

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Table 21 - Number, participation, and level of activity of selected service cooperatives by State’ (Continued)

Dairy herd improvement 4

State Members cows

(herds) tested State Members COWS

(herds) tasted

Number

110

1,000

17

Number 1,000

Montana 77 8

Nebraska 382 3 0

Nevada 2 7 8

New Hampshire 123 10

New Jersey 125 11

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

56 46

135 11

1,205 687

Colorado 111 26 New Mexico 25 18

Connecticut 129 13 New York 1,956 177

Delaware 37 5 North Carolina 353 51

Florida 47 19 North Dakota 105 8

Georgia 226 42 Ohio 1,346 92

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

279 41

918 62

554 40

1.211 70

Oklahoma 177 15

Oregon 335 53

Pennsylvania 2,837 181

Rhode Island 13 1

South Carolina 116 20

Kansas 485 37 South Dakota 236 18

Kentucky 379 31 Tennessee 438 48

Louisiana 211 24 Texas 433 90

Maine 174 12 Utah 250 34

Maryland 616 53 Vermont 594 45

Massachusetts 154 11 Virginia

Michigan 1,360 127 Washington

Minnesota 4,403 250 West Virginia

Mississippi 158 20 Wisconsin

Missouri 668 52 Wyoming

519 64

429 86

115 10

5,388 332

United States 30,025 3,104

- None reported in the State

1 For year ended December 31, 1992. Totals may not add due to rounding.

2 Source: Rural Electrification Administration, USDA.

3 Source: Credit Union National Association, Inc. (Includes federally chartered and State-chartered credit unions.)

4 Source: Agricultural Research Service, USDA.

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Appendix Table l- Cooperative numbers’ and memberships,* by major business activity and State, 1991 3

State

Co-op hqts.

in State Memberships State

Co-op hqts

in State Memberships

BEANS AND PEAS, DRY EDIBLE

California 5

Other States

-

5

United States 10

COTTON4

Arkansas 3

California 3

Mississippi 3

Texas 6

Other States

-

4

United States 19

DAIRY

California 7

Hawaii 3

Illinois 7

Iowa 9

Minnesota 49

New York 65

North Dakota 5

Ohio 7

Oregon 3

Pennsylvania 27

South Carolina 3

Vermont 4

Virginia 3

Wisconsin 42

Other States

-

30

United States 264

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES5

Arizona 4

Arkansas 5

California 85

Colorado 13

Florida 35

Georgia 4

Hawaii 7

Illinois 3

Kentucky 3

Maine 5

Massachusetts 3

Michigan 18

Nebraska 3

New Jersey 9

New York 8

897

1,738

2,635

669

2,554

2,106

19,646

9,948

34,923

1,529

11

3,137

7,534

18,676

8,291

1,456

4,226

730

7,800

553

2,045

1.017

27,442

42,755

127,202

557

970

29,893

1,193

2,492

81

294

121

304

841

102

3,849

87

949

1,043

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES5 (Continued)

North Carolina 6

Ohio 6

Oregon 12

Pennsylvania 8

Texas 5

Vermont 3

Virginia 5

Washington 28

Other States

-

2 1

United States 299

GRAINS AND OILSEEDS EXCLUDING

COTTONSEED 7

Arkansas 4

Colorado 17

Idaho 9

Illinois 143

Indiana 33

Iowa 171

Kansas 152

Louisiana 3

Michigan 12

Minnesota 147

Mississippi 7

Missouri 14

Montana 18

Nebraska 92

North Dakota 154

Ohio 55

Oklahoma 63

Oregon 5

South Dakota 102

Texas 46

Washington 26

Other States

-

14

United States 1,287

LIVESTOCK 5

Alabama 8

Colorado 4

Idaho 4

Indiana 3

Iowa 3

Kentucky 4

Michigan 6

Minnesota 32

Mississippi 6

599

2,294

1,972

1,882

346

26

169

5,977

6 4,993

61,034

9,625

10,897

4,357

104,317

64,173

98,336

123,485

346

6,714

97,466

3,086

14,723

11,130

67,283

67,735

42,650

39,446

4,114

58,165

23,418

10,335

10.071

871,872

6,710

4,616

6,664

26,227

11,271

5,258

27,531

58,986

8,571

Continued

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Appendix Table t- Co-op numbersland memberships,* by major business activity and State, 19913(Continued)

State

Co-op hqts.

in State Memberships State

Co-op hqts

in State Memberships

LIVESTOCK 5 (Continued)

Missouri

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Virginia

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Other States

United States

NUT8

California

Other States

United States

POULTRY

California

Utah

Other States

United States

RICE 5

Arkansas

California

Louisiana

Texas

Other States

United States

SUGAR 9

California

Idaho

Louisiana

Michigan

Minnesota

Montana

Nebraska

Wyoming

Other States

United States

6

5

5

4

4

3

13

5

57

-

22

194

3

-

11

14

3

3

-

7

13

19

3

10

9

-

1

42

3

3

11

3

3

4

4

4

-

13

48

11,779

34,723

10,466

7,661

98

607

2,496

689

36,490

661.175

322,018

4,752

45,198

49,950

72

121

32,344

32,537

11,554

2,424

700

1,300

531

16,509

1,774

1,027

879

2,802

1,916

351

561

453

2.804

12,567

TOBACCO 8

Kentucky

North Carolina

Tennessee

Virginia

Other States

81,035

76,468

41,895

24,106

44,886

United States 26 268,390

WOOL AND MOHAIR

Idaho

Montana

North Dakota

Pennsylvania

Utah

Virginia

West Virginia

Wyoming

Other States

12 759

21 1,568

5 308

20 2,986

6 1,564

13 2,694

9 2,100

6 669

28 26,581

United States 120 39,229

MISCELLANEOUS ‘0

California

Florida

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Ohio

Other States

United States

6

3

3

4

3

3

-

26

48

1,189

8

59

72

152

47

2,020

3,547

TOTAL MARKETING

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

13 23,604

6 2,449

34 23,730

122 48,142

39 17,835

42 9,907

9 37,918

16 838

32 16,219

159 128,863

37 96,840

189 119,379

153 130,403

17 90,091

28 3,680

6 1,356

Continued

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Appendix Table l- Co-op numbers’ and memberships,* by major business activity and State, 1991s(Continued)

State

Co-ophqts.

in State Memberships State

Co-ophqts

in State Memberships

TOTAL MARKETING (Continued)

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Other States

United States

FARM SUPPLY

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

6

44

240

23

23

49

106

13

82

22

173

80

69

25

61

6

106

11

73

17

9

41

61

16

107

10

-

9

2,384

711

45,756

179,798

16,339

33,369

14,759

77,942

3,224

44,833

96,575

81,729

76,698

54,114

7,954

12,779

22,823

73,107

43,539

53,342

7,927

2,415

37,944

18,454

4,990

67,518

2,223

10,297

1,842,413

52 47,010

43 43,448

23 15,992

22 20,779

3 2,995

9 7,321

5 1,365

6 1,635

13 12,436

80 115,621

33 60,020

101 135,908

36 40,776

30 118,962

26 10,903

14 49,474

5 6,005

FARM SUPPLY (Continued)

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Other States

United States

SERVICE ‘1

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Hawaii

Illinois

Kentucky

Louisiana

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Nebraska

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Pennsylvania

Texas

Washington

36

175

51

52

45

70

4

82

119

29

25

17

13

79

72

56

10

40

35

14

147

8

-

9

1,689

26,014

153,966

60,364

117,249

21,411

64,839

6,434

53,717

63,185

23,013

19,550

24,698

24,610

60,076

73,267

23,003

5,691

185,256

19,073

57,254

146,421

4,277

100,682

2,024.700

5 341

4 253

7 878

49 6,404

6 84

6 1,148

7 224

7 1,370

4 6,229

7 31,353

35 1,870

3 978

6 619

6 651

3 84

3 498

6 6,787

32 8,638

7 19,207

180 40,945

3 2,973

Continued

32
Appendix Table l-Co-op numbers1 and memberships,* by major business activity and State, 1991 3 (Continued)

Co-op hqts.

State

Co-op hqts

in State Memberships State in State Memberships

SERVICE 11 (Continued)

Wisconsin

Other States

United States

TOTAL

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

11 37,141

24 22,782

421 191,457

70 70,955

12 66,105

a4 66,056

194 70,538

63 38,762

5 3,271

3 15,245

53 29,488

15 39,374

28 2,557

46 28,655

245 245,632

71 156,660

292 257,202

191 171,432

54 209,277

61 15,953

7 7,579

16 50,575

11 6,716

a4 77,999

422 365,117

109 78,573

77 151,448

94 36,170

179 143,759

19 9,683

a 2,223

170 99,201

27 i 08,245

295 145,412

115 106,498

126 82,302

43 32,660

al 56,596

9 23,208

186 133,645

a5 118,064

309 117,290

28 16,036

9 6,022

a2 226,248

TOTAL (Continued)

Washington 99 40,500

West Virginia 30 62,244

Wisconsin 265 251,080

Wyoming l a 6,500

Other States 4 7,615

United States 4,494 4,058,570

1 Includes centralized and federated cooperatives and those with

mixed organizational structures,

* Includes farmer members (those entitfed to vote for directors) but

not nonvoting patrons. (Duplication in these membership figures

occurs because many farmers belong to more than one

cooperative.) Totals may not add due to rounding. Revised.

3 Data covering operations of cooperatives for calendar year 1991.

States listed are those with more than two cooperatives or where

disclosure is not a problem.

4 Cotton ginning cooperatives in previous reports were included in

this classification. These cooperatives were reclassified as service

cooperatives in 1989.

5 Cooperatives performing specific services related to a commodity

are included. Incorporated local associations of a federation that

performs the actual marketing or processing are counted.

6 Includes foreign memberships.

’ Excludes soybean meal and oil.

8 Membership fluctuates annually and is affected by the extent to

which producers participate in price stabilization programs.

0 Includes sugar, sugarcane, sugar beets, honey, maple syrup,

molasses, and sorghum.

10 Includes forest products, hay, hops, nursery stock, coffee, and

other farm products not separately classified.

‘I Cooperatives providing services related to marketing or

purchasing activities. Major services provided are cotton ginning,

trucking, storing, grinding, drying, and artificial insemination.

33
Appendix Table 2- Cooperative business volume1 by commodity and State, 19912

Business volume Business volume

State Gross Net State Gross Net

1,000 dollars

PRODUCTS MARKETED:

BEANS AND PEAS, DRY EDIBLE

California 122,734

Other States 101,900

United States 224,635

COTTON

Arkansas

California

Mississippi

Texas

Other States

United States

143,399

556,897

415,675

873,753

559,925

2,549,651

DAIRY

California

Hawaii

Illinois

Iowa

Minnesota

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

Vermont

Virginia

Wisconsin

Other States

United States

2,078,845

6,079

663,223

702,653

1,856,629

1,059,376

142,772

565,246

221,841

962,286

43,214

309,600

322,099

3,986,483

6,798,960

19,719,306

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Arizona 129,268

Arkansas 1,363

California 3,833,602

Colorado 32,190

Florida 1 ,184,897

Georgia 56,648

Hawaii 5,821

Illinois 2,177

Kentucky 3,989

Maine 43,669

Massachusetts 360,669

Michigan 352,386

Nebraska 20

120,077

99,097

219,173

143,247

510,732

401,186

749,582

538,562

2,343,310

2,066,507

6,079

584,056

670,775

1,633,919

966,351

125,748

544,941

212,865

911,791

42,450

302,181

318,511

3,795,970

6,628,930

18,819,073

122,418

1,363

3,559,892

23,478

1,137,350

31,186

5,821

2,177

3,989

43,669

360,669

266,669

20

1,000 dollars

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES (Continued)

New Jersey 301,728 294,460

New York 163,732 116,873

North Carolina 576 576

Ohio 11,455 11,455

Oregon 472,365 466,566

Pennsylvania 435,709 411,034

Texas 27,585 21,818

Vermont 2,500 2,500

Virginia 609 609

Washington 747,083 726,110

Other States 591,551 551,366

Foreign 3 8,182 8,182

United States 8,769,773 8,170,251

GRAINS AND OILSEEDS EXCLUDING

COTTONSEED

Arkansas

Colorado

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Louisiana

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

South Dakota

Texas

Washington

Other States

Foreign3

133,886 133,886

141,810 141,810

90,694 77,875

1,620,040 1,582,036

1,196,966 986,746

2,340,986 2,324,968

1,034,480 1,021,661

17,425 17,425

189,466 155,214

2,430,478 1,903,640

89,485 89,485

281,790 281,790

268,125 178,390

1 ,143,836 1,117,177

1,343,735 1,095,527

1,265,940 945,307

1,311,973 284,470

283,572 193,836

861,104 691,142

511,297 383,897

539,790 437,236

450,370 414,411

26,707 13,888

United States 17,581,959 14,471,817

Continued

34
Appendix Table 2- Cooperative business vWm* by c-y and Stale, 19912 (Continued)

State

Business volume

Gross Net State

Business volume

Gross Net

LIVESTOCK

Alabama

Colorado

Idaho

Indiana

Iowa

Kentucky

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Virginia

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Other States

Foreign3

34,646 34,646

94,227 94,227

74,230 74,230

193,699 193,699

564,036 564,036

53,567 53,567

533,511 533,511

207,836 207,836

68,315 68,315

243,834 243,834

61,346 61,346

123,213 123,213

315,623 315,623

425 425

16,917 16,917

28,719 28,719

4,472 4,472

732,029 732,029

1,755,357 1,755,357

4,702 4,702

United States 5,110,703 5,110,703

NUTS

California

Other States

United States

579,304 579,304

243,920 243,920

823,223 823,223

POULTRY

California

Utah

Other States

United States

36,881 36,881

134,784 22,238

1,233,519 1,111,595

1,405,181 1,170,711

RICE

Arkansas

Caiifornia

Louisiana

Texas

Other States

450,358 449,130

161,369 161,369

12,169 12,143

53,563 53,563

29,576 29,510

United States 707,034 705,714

1,000 dollars 1,000 dollars

SUGAR

Idaho

Louisiana

Michigan

Minnesota

Montana

Nebraska

Wyoming

Other States

Foreign3

112,691 112,691

113,689 113,689

133,292 118,805

549,639 449,805

6,416 6,416

3,319 3,319

20.116 20,116

1,049,566 1 ,013,871

805 805

United States 1,989,532 1,839,517

TOBACCO

Kentucky

North Carolina

Tennessee

Virginia

Other States

United States

WOOL AND MOHAIR

Idaho

Montana

North Dakota

Pennsylvania

Utah

Virginia

West Virginia

Wyoming

Other States

United States

119.440 119,440

246,191 246,191

72,988 72,988

62,908 62,908

69.163 69,163

83 83

277 277

50 50

154 154

2,746 2,012

66 66

108 108

10 10

21,543 10,968

25,037 13,728

MISCELLANEOUS MARKETING’

California 209,477

Florida 9,599

Michigan 46,758

Minnesota 110,656

Mississippi 136,125

Ohio 13,026

Other States 825,347

Foreign3 597,723,

United States 1,948,714 1,945,014

570,690

209,477

9,599

46,758

110,656

136,099

13,026

821,673

597,723

Continued

35
Appendix Table 2- Cooperative business volume1 by commodity and State, 1991 z(Continued)

Business volume Businessvolume

State Gross Net State Gross Net

1,000 dollars

TOTALFARMPRODUCTSMARKETED

Alabama 512,130 487,559

Arizona 639,557 628.313

Arkansas 1,017,593 1,012,624

California 7,788,760 7,451,690

Colorado 479,998 467,522

Florida 1,977,308 1,929,760

Georgia 723,721 694,835

Idaho 729,385 710,232

Illinois 2,892,483 2,775,311

Indiana 1,758,092 1,519,433

Iowa 3,988,432 3,929,208

Kansas 1,379,655 1,366,836

Kentucky 528,321 509,111

Louisiana 339,548 338,664

Maine 99,229 96,645

Massachusetts 625,530 619,735

Michigan 1,842,777 1,705,836

Minnesota 5,308,806 4,371,982

Mississippi 811,059 794,907

Missouri 1,309,115 1,277,351

Montana 343,806 253,928

Nebraska 1,935,779 1,890,363

NewJersey 345,014 336,370

NewYork 1,327,281 1,187,398

North Carolina 621,041 617,305

North Dakota 1,875,759 1,574,808

Ohio 2,201,877 1,856,536

Oklahoma 1,717,411 669,490

Oregon 1,103,372 979,167

Pennsylvania 1,481,123 1,405,954

South Carolina 162,571 161,807

South Dakota 1,258,830 1,046,779

Tennessee 280,683 276,455

Texas 2,119,016 1,861,616

Utah 391,393 269,823

Vermont 315,555 308,136

Virginia 476,523 472,935

Washington 1,914.158 1.760‘445

West Virginia 37,572 36,884

Wisconsin 5,130,046 4,937,256

Wyoming 50,116 49,734

Other States 946,894 936,888

Foreign3 638,118 625,299

United States 61,425,438 56,202,924

1,000 dollars

FARM SUPPLIES PROVIDED:

FARM CHEMICALS

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Other States

Foreign3

United States

49,779 24,178

94,636 51,918

25,481 22,462

24,384 19,259

4,668 4,286

9,306 9,264

22,980 21,347

1,125 1,125

12,823 12,801

269,949 184,912

142,975 107,040

378,475 245,597

73,753 54,897

31,410 28,279

47,489 27,377

13,805 12,240

4,229 3,946

29,026 19,453

292,211 186,768

43,725 31,858

72,596 63,480

20,122 14,809

139,300 105,011

7,025 6,517

37,366 32,442

75,731 60,436

93,925 64,579

13,362 11,947

24,968 19,612

24,634 22,933

101,132 71,380

82,285 49,157

51,066 46,442

10,185 10,185

29,146 24,369

29,326 19,663

6,705 5,731

135,455 82,675

2,621 2,501

49,635 40,885

8,376 1,517

2,587,186 1,825,278

Continued

36
Appendix Table 2- Cooperative business volume’ by commodity and State, 19912 (Continued)

State

Business volume

Gross Net State

Business volume

Gross Net

FEED

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Other States

Foreign3

195,659 180,882

110,528 60,706

142,275 123,128

49,159 38,788

51,768 45,939

72,936 70,054

143,416 138,680

2,421 2,421

25,314 12,227

248,807 171,623

162,554 97,625

755,906 500,767

191,205 144,468

52,318 46,580

44,546 29,231

33,338 29,888

31,106 26,248

62,470 48,256

578,166 341,840

73,960 73,568

166,462 128,979

36,462 12,592

195,802 129,619

41,192 32,448

238,450 202,273

94,794 42,369

184,340 140,019

69,010 46,949

54,651 53,136

143,192 113,753

188,918 90,040

193,188 101,346

88,081 66,106

57,089 56,290

104,857 93,058

38,716 36,870

12,653 11,535

353,734 225,375

5,147 4,539

332,533 292,230

57,340 34,415

United States 5,684,463

I, 000 dollars 1,000 dollars

4,096,857

FERTILIZER

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Other States

Foreign3

United States

113,059 76,904

146,279 76,174

72,684 66,185

66,832 54,787

16,320 10,990

131,749 40,896

76,144 60,399

1,048 1,048

24,447 22,686

612,466 337,271

337,210 188,891

713,157 395,981

237,507 191,932

112,558 75,880

123,191 50,205

26,228 23,839

7,088 6,317

51,959 36,169

533,776 271,672

74,172 56,758

209,280 158,828

36,990 28,560

258,262 197,936

11,242 9,854

110,556 83,845

169,101 91,325

203,599 102,675

96,817 74,212

39,821 30,601

39,974 34,556

130,944 95,457

229,020 105,623

190,570 127,348

14,144 13,829

64,971 56,849

34,697 23,442

6,663 6,107

285,423 150,343

21,831 13,606

116,159 99,925

188,766 81,517

5,936,705 3,631,420

Continued

37
Appendix Table 2- Cooperative bushes v~hme~ by tmmmdty rad gtde, 1991 *(Continued)

Business volume Business volume

State Gross Net Stab Gross Net

PETROLEUM

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Other States

Foreign3

5,276 5,102

82,169 43,977

6,498 4,999

137,160 100,719

58,697 42,913

2,654 2,654

376 376

224 224

83,412 54,535

552,246 300,121

373,410 268,587

884,458 480,422

956,465 307,073

88,125 74,063

19,594 12,136

85,462 77,135

58,821 39,911

68,913 54,202

609,293 381,096

32,685 24,588

508,325 349,486

168,754 78,277

402,516 270,958

77,441 59,991

305,426 232,041

356,331 219,764

149,736 100,544

267,919 110,913

93,583 66,887

257,692 198,967

209,504 168,600

92,857 49,436

162,213 116,626

15,510 8,967

133,316 118,940

170,314 99,311

27,320 25,136

562,428 369,958

47,966 27,120

188,532 152,018

98,664 18,786

United States 8,402,287

1,000 dollars 1.000 dollars

5,117,561

SEED

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Other States

Foreign’

United States

45,397 22,221

21,463 12,744

21,067 21,067

1,934 1,934

1,906 1,725

4,292 4,251

11,473 11,308

356 356

7,423 6,910

53,290 33,855

20,192 14,227

57,396 37,012

8,877 8,877

14,747 13,490

14,074 8,350

9,605 8,640

3,743 3,592

9,168 8,352

39,129 30,419

15,623 12,061

21,289 19,035

5,515 3,038

12,451 9,944

6,197 5,925

26,463 25,466

23,850 17,722

32,283 23,574

5,125 5,125

13,126 12,630

19,850 18,974

10,360 8,378

44,935 27,547

15,056 15,056

4,361 4,361

19,162 17,598

11,223 10,232

3,492 3,171

36,475 22,587

1,409 902

41,399 39,268

247 247

715,424 552,171

Continued

38
Appendix Table 2- Cooperative business volume’ by commodity and State, 1991 Z(Continued)

Business volume Businessvolume

State Gross Net State Gross Net

1.000 dollars

MISCELLANEOUS SUPPLIES5

Alabama 81,728 75,058

Arkansas 78,411 47,173

California 110,915 68,223

Colorado 38,352 31,591

Connecticut 27,292 24,912

Florida 176,864 114,880

Georgia 52,446 52,259

Hawaii 1,661 1,661

Idaho 25,196 21,417

Illinois 101,386 63,719

Indiana 84,362 45,503

Iowa 155,100 110,121

Kansas 109,301 84,123

Kentucky 75,993 67,544

Louisiana 26,757 16,272

Maryland 37,305 32,789

Massachusetts 29,822 27,869

Michigan 71,156 60,960

Minnesota 243,918 167,652

Mississippi 35,450 32,875

Missouri 119,767 76,566

Montana 35,309 30,720

Nebraska 100,333 82,485

New Jersey 48,567 44,893

New York 243,817 203,327

North Dakota 78,716 66,927

Ohio 79,152 58,564

Oklahoma 59,606 31,544

Oregon 80,136 76,004

Pennsylvania 150,546 138,710

South Dakota 63,923 49,743

Tennessee 108,487 66,941

Texas 68,483 58,518

Utah 35,427 35,378

Virginia 145,109 104,778

Washington 80,686 57,167

West Virginia 25,265 22,642

Wisconsin 193,386 165,923

Wyoming 9,076 8,470

Other States 188,436 160,553

Foreign3 12,390 6,294

United States 3,490,032 2,692,749

1.000 dollars

TOTAL FARM SUPPLIES

Alabama 490,897 384,347

Arkansas 533,486 292,691

California 378,921 306,063

Colorado 317,821 247,078

Connecticut 160,652 130,765

Florida 397,803 241,999

Georgia 306,835 284,369

Hawaii 6,834 6,834

Idaho 178,615 130,575

Illinois 1,838,145 1,091,502

Indiana 1,120,702 721,873

Iowa 2,944,492 1,769,QOO

Kansas 1,577,108 791,370

Kentucky 375,151 305,836

Louisiana 275,651 143,570

Maryland 205,744 184,531

Massachusetts 134,808 107,882

Michigan 292,692 227,392

Minnesota 2,296,492 1,379,447

Mississippi 275,615 231,708

Missouri 1,097,719 796,374

Montana 303,152 167,996

Nebraska 1,108,664 795,953

New Jersey 191,663 159,627

New York 962,076 779,394

North Dakota 798,523 498,543

Ohio 743,035 489,954

Oklahoma 511,840 280,689

Oregon 306,285 258,870

Pennsylvania 635,888 527,892

South Dakota 704,781 483,597

Tennessee 750,773 400,050

Texas 575,469 430,096

Utah 136,715 129,010

Virginia 496,561 415,591

Washington 364,962 246,685

West Virginia 82,099 74,321

Wisconsin 1,566,902 1,016,862

Wyoming 88,050 57,139

Other States 916,692 784,882

Foreign3 365,784 142,777

United States 26,816,097 17,916,038

Continued

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Appendix Table 2- Cooperative business volume’ by commodity and State, 19912(Continued)

Businessvolume Businessvolume

State Gross Net State Gross Net

1,000 dollars 1,000 dollars

SERVICES PROVIDED?

Alabama 9,808 9,808

Arizona 14,969 14,969

Arkansas 44,058 44,058

California 256,617 256,617

Hawaii 13,438 13,438

Illinois 156,031 156,031

Kentucky 7,632 7,632

Louisiana 18,288 18,288

Michigan 46,130 46,130

Minnesota 163,740 163,740

Mississippi 188,983 188,983

Nebraska 106,556 106,556

New Mexico 4,423 4,423

New York 113,199 113,199

North Carolina 12,573 12,573

North Dakota 31,138 31,138

Ohio 84,071 84,071

Oklahoma 49,483 49,483

Pennsylvania 37,054 37,054

Texas 304,501 304,501

Washington 110,284 110,284

Wisconsin 57,618 57,618

Other States 686,711 686.711

United States 2517,306 2,517,306

TOTAL:

Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

1,012,834 881,714

719,904 695,351

1,595,137 1,349,373

8,424,297 8,014,370

816,181 732,963

208,968 176,688

109,508 100,462

2,443,925 2,240,575

1,058,943 1,007.592

917,731 850,538

4,886,658 4,022,843

2,928,230 2,290,742

7,082,663 5,848,846

3,063,380 2,264,822

911,104 822,578

633,487 500,523

271,777 247,941

468,065 442,184

766,454 733,733

2,181,600 1,979,358

TOTAL: (Continued)

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Other States

Foreign3

7,769,037 5,915,168

1.275.657 1,215,599

2,503,913 2,170,804

652,648 427,613

3,150,999 2,792,872

541,953 501,273

72,366 70,155

2,402,556 2,079,991

849,093 810,503

2,705,421 2,104,490

3,028,982 2,430,561

2,278,735 999,663

1,446,845 1,275,225

2,154,065 1,970,900

300,743 293,210

1,995,696 1,562,460

1,046,216 691,265

2,998,986 2,596,213

552,263 422,988

472,042 439,559

996,692 912,133

2,389,404 2,117,414

120,028 111,563

6,754,565 6,011,736

139,286 107,993

655,901 633,647

1,003,902 768,076

United States 90,758,841 76,636,268

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Appendix Table 2- Footnotes

1 Data covering operations of cooperatives whose business years

ended during the 1991 calendar year. Includes independent local

cooperatives, federations, centralized regional cooperatives, and

cooperatives with mixed organizational structures. The volume of

products marketed is allocated to the State in which they originate

and the volume of farm supplies is allocated to the State in which

they are sold; service volume is allocated to the State of origin

when services relate to farm products marketed or to the State of

destination when related to farm supplies sold.

2 Gross business volume includes sales between cooperatives,

Net business volume excludes sales between cooperatives, States

listed are those where more than two cooperatives handle the

commodity or farm supply or where disclosure is not a problem.

Totals may not add due to rounding.

3 Includes value of farm products imported, farm supplies exported,

services related to imported farm products or exported farm

supplies, sales to domestic military installations, or sales of farm

products not received directly from member-patrons.

4 Includes forest products, hay, hops, nursery stock, fish, coffee,

seed marketed for growers, and other farm products not separately

classified. Also includes manufactured food products and resale

items marketed by cooperatives.

5 Includes building supplies, containers and packaging supplies,

farm machinery and equipment, animal health products, automotive

supplies, food, hardware, chicks, and other supplies not separately

classified.

6 Income from services related to marketing and purchasing

activities but not included in the volumes reported for these

activities.

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Appendix Figure l-cooperative Net Business Volume, 1972-92

Billion dollars Total

60

40

20

0

FMarketing

Farm Supply

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

1972 74 76 78 80

Total includes value of related services provided.

82 84 86 88 90 92

Appendix Figure 2- Cooperatives’ Gross and Net Business Volume, 1983-92

Billion dollars

100

80

60

50

40 I I I I I I I I I I

1983 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92

The difference between gross and net is intercooperative business.

T

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Appendix Figure 3- U.S. Farms and Farmer Cooperative Memberships, 1972-92

Millions

7

6

Farms

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

1972 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92

Memberships were higher than fan numbers because many farmers belonged to more than one cooperative.

Appendix Figure 4- Distribution of Farmer Cooperatives by Type, 1992

Farm Supply 37.5

Other 5.0

Sugar 1.4

Livestock & Poultry 2.5

Service 11.1

Cotton 0.4

Dairy 6.1

Fruit & Vegetable

Rice 0.5

Grain 28.8

Percent based on 4,315 cooperatives.

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Memberships ~

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Appendix Figure 5- Farmer Cooperatives Grouped by Size of Membership, 1992

Percent of total

6 0

5 0

4 0

3 0

2 0

1 0

0

Less than 100 100-499 500-999 1,000-l ,999 2,000 or more

Memberships

Percent based on 4,315 cooperatives and 4,071,869 memberships.

Appendix Figure 6- Farmer Cooperatives’ Assets, 1983-92

Percent of total

50

40

30

20

10

0

Financed by Member and Patron Equity

Invested in Other Coooeratives .

I 1 I I I I I I I I

1983 a4 a5 86 87 88 89 90 91 92

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Appendix Figure 7- Farmer Cooperatives Grouped by Size of Assets, 1992

Percent of total

351

Less than 0.5 0.5-0.9 1 .o-2.49 2.5-24.9 25-99.9

Total assets (million dollars)

Percent based on 4,315 cooperatives and combined assets of $32 billion.

100.0-499.9 500 or more

Appendix Figure 8- Distribution of Net Income by Type of Cooperative, 1992

Farm Supply 40.6

Sugar 1.7

Rice 1.4

Grain 19.1

Fruit & Vegetable 10.5

Service 5.0

All Other 2.6

Cotton 5.1

Dairy 14.0

Percent based on net income of $1.4 billion. The livestock and poultry group showed losses in 1992.

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Appendix Figure 9- Distribution of Losses by Type of Cooperative, 1992

Farm Supply 47.0

Grains & Oilseeds 17.7

Fruit 8 Vegetable 2.8

Percent based on losses of $172.5 million.

Service 2.5

All Other 1.3

Dairy 14.5

Cotton 0.3

Livestock & Poultry 13.3

Appendix Figure 10- Distribution of Net Worth by Type of Cooperative, 1992

Farm Supply 38.1

Grains & Oilseeds 25.6

Sugar 2.6

Rice 0.5

. . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . Service 3.3

. . . . . .

. . . . . . All Other 2.9

. . . . . .

. . . - Livestock & Poultry 3.0

- Cotton 1.9

Dairy 12.0

Fruit & Vegetable 10.1

Percent based on net worth of $14.2 billion.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture

Agricultural Cooperative Service

P.O. Box 96576

Washington, D.C. 20090-6576

Agricultural Cooperative Service (ACS) provides research, management, and

educational assistance to cooperatives to strengthen the economic position of

farmers and other rural residents. It works directly with cooperative leaders and

Federal and State agencies to improve organization, leadership, and operation

of cooperatives and to give guidance to further development.

The agency (1 ) helps farmers and other rural residents develop cooperatives to

obtain supplies and services at lower cost and to get better prices for products

they sell: (2) advises rural residents on developing existing resources through

cooperative action to enhance rural living; (3) helps cooperatives improve

services and operating efficiency; (4) informs members, directors, employees,

and the public on how cooperatives work and benefit their members and their

communities; and (5) encourages international cooperative programs.

ACS publishes research and educational materials and issues farmer

Cooperatives magazine. All programs and activities are conducted on a

nondiscriminatory basis, without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, marital

status, handicap, or national origin.