WASHINGTON, D.C. - Dairy
cooperatives are marketing a
growing share of the nation’s milk
and dairy products, according to a
preliminary report by Randall E.
Torgerson, administrator of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Agricultural Cooperative Service.
Preliminary data from a survey
of all dairy cooperatives in the
Nation revealed a slow but steady
increase in the cooperatives’ share
of raw milk marketed, along with
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In 1980, members delivered to
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1964. Marketing of dried milk and
whey products rose to 85 percent in
1900, up from 73 percent in 1973.
Torgerson said significant gains
were seen in the fluid processing
and soft product industry sector,
with 16 percent of the nation’s milk
now bottled by cooperatives,
compared with 12 percent a decade
ago and nine percent in 1964.
Cottage cheese shares increased
from 13 percent in 1973 to 22 per
cent in 1960, while ice cream in-
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creased to 14 percent, up from only
five percent in 1973.
Cooperative milk marketings
increased significantly in New
England, Central and Pacific
regions, held about steady in the
South Atlantic and decreased in
the Middle Atlantic and Mountain
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New officers for the 1983-84 year
were elected. The results were:
President, Barbara Murphy; Ist
Vice-President, Karen Baker; 2nd
Vice-President, Jodi Neuberger;
Recording Secretary, Becky
Alpaugh; Corresponding
Secretary, Tara Udut; Treasurer,
David Palmer; Assistant
Treasurer, Kristin Sandorff;
Reporter, Jennifer Hasselbrook;
Photographer, Susan Kostak; and
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Highlights of the report,
“Operations of Dairy
Cooperatives,” by Thomas H.
Stafford and James B. Roof, USDA
economists, will appear in a future
issue of US DA’s “Farmer
Cooperatives” magazine and later
in complete published form.
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