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When it comes to monikers for dairy cooperatives, Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA) is something of a misnomer. The name somewhat belies the fact that the Novi, Mich.-based operation serves [...]

The November 30, 2018. earthquake was not an insignificant event. But despite experiencing a pretty good shake, Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA) CEO Michael Burke is proud to report that the [...]

Onward and Upward Future-Focused Ace Carries Values Forward Ace Hardware Corp. is on a growth path that maintains its retailer-owned cooperative model, continues to pursue its core values and finds [...]

Candles burned brightly in two Guatemalan villages, where the residents cooked over open flames. Lightbulbs, however, are now illuminating 100 homes, two elementary schools, two health centers and five churches--thanks [...]

With at least 40,000 employees, North Carolina's energy industry generates both jobs and economics growth. As the state becomes a leader in renewable technologies such as solar power, that role [...]

Walking the aisles of a trade show or buying market can be both an exhilarating and daunting prospect. What products represent the next big trend for your store and customer [...]

PUF Editor-in-Chief Steve Mitnick went to Nashville. But he very regrettably had no time for the Grand Ole Opry or the Country Music Hall of Fame. Mitnick was there to [...]

Barbara Nick became President and CEO of Dairyland Power Cooperative in December 2014. In her thirty-seven-year career in the electric and gas industry, Nick has gained a wide range of [...]

* Assorted freight cars. Northwood Co-op Elevator, Archer Daniels Midland, and General Chemical Pullman-Standard 4,750-cubic-foot-capacity three-bay covered hopper (single car, S20.98; three-pack, $61.98). Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; Chicago, Burlington [...]

THE NONALCOHOLIC COCKTAIL SCENE has exploded over the past year, and the epicenter of the movement sits in a cozy co-op in California wine country. Opened in December, Fern Bar [...]

Fifty-five years ago, Bleyhl Co-op was formed based on a promise that it would preserve a way of life for its members and communities throughout Washington's Yakima Valley 'We uphold [...]

CO-OP MONTH Montana is a challenging state for growing pasture-raised poultry, due to its harsh climate and the long distances between marketplaces. In 2006, six poultry growers formed the Montana [...]

It's like getting punched in the gut.' Though it's been more than four years since it happened, Mark Pfeiffer can't forget how it felt to look at the pile of [...]

Nearly 18 months into a merger with a neighboring Iowa cooperative, Milan Kucerak still hits the road once a month to meet with members. But he sleeps a whole lot [...]

Agri-Mark is a dairy cooperative with 1,200 members in the Northeast United States. It markets 3.5 billion pounds of milk annually, supplying fluid milk to HP Hood, Dairy Farmers of [...]

Watching truckload after truckload of beef cattle pass by the feedlot in central Kansas he was managing, Lee Borck knew something had to be done if his operation was going [...]

Broadband service delivers tremendous economic and educational value to people, with study after study demonstrating that areas with broadband have stronger economies, better access to jobs and higher median household [...]

Jim Matheson is Chief Executive Officer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), the national service organization that represents the nation's more than nine hundred private, not-for-profit, consumer-owned electric [...]

Every week our Grocer 33 puts the mults to the test. But how about their c-stores? How much more pricey are they? What's the service and offer like? Last month, [...]

Co-ops exist to serve members, often by anticipating and addressing farmer problems before they become overwhelming. In recent years, farmers have been forced to deal with unusually severe weather patterns [...]

Florida citrus growers who survived 2004 -when the state was pummeled by three consecutive hurricanes --could be excused for believing they had taken the worst hit Mother Nature could deliver [...]

Editor's note: Keli A. Tianga is associate editor of Shelterforce magazine, published by the National Housing Institute, a nonprofit organization that examines housing and community issues. This article is an [...]

Editor's note: This article includes information from an interview conducted by USDA photographer Lance Cheung. If you can't bring the consumer to the cranberry bog, bring the bog to the [...]

When Centerra Co-op serves its customers, it avoids cookie-cutter solutions to their problems, CEO Jean Bratton says. 'The thing about our customers is they're very diverse in what they do,' [...]

In the fall of 2015, the three major Detroit auto companies--General Motors (GM), Ford, and Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)--appeared to be on the verge of adopting a radically different approach for [...]

Byline: Derrill Holly Hurricane Dorian, a deadly and dangerous storm that stalled for more than 24 hours over the Bahamas, is slowly lumbering north and threatening the Atlantic coastline of [...]

CM Labs Simulations, developer of Vortextraining simulators, will allow ICUEE attendees to operate two different simulator platforms during the International Construction and Utility Equipment Expo (ICUEE), Oct. 1-2, in Louisville, [...]

India, Sept. 3 -- The onus of restoration lies on individual farmers, those organised as cooperatives and the companies that now know that long-term growth and profits cannot be at [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Spain's Cerealto Siro Foods has signed an agreement with local farmer cooperative Acor to purchase durum wheat directly from producers and to foster sustainable production. The deal [...]

Byline: Dean Best Agrial, the French agri-food major, is in talks to buy two SME charcuterie suppliers, deals that would follow two acquisitions in the sector in 2017. The co-op [...]