@article{Rotan:313031,
      recid = {313031},
      author = {Rotan, Beverly L. and Wissman, Roger A. and Kraenzle,  Charles A. and Gray, Thomas and Adams, Celestine C.},
      title = {Farmer Cooperatives:  Cash Grain Farmers, Members, and  Use},
      address = {1991-11},
      number = {1502-2021-2269},
      series = {ACS Research Report No. 102},
      pages = {34},
      year = {1991},
      abstract = {More than 65 percent of all grain farmers were either  members or nonmember patrons of marketing and/or farm  supply cooperatives in 1980 and 1986.  Other findings from  analysis of the data include:  a decrease in nonmember  nonpatrons from 1980 to 1986 and an increase in the  proportion of cash grain farmers holding cooperative  membership.  Also, cash grain farmers’ economic  participation in cooperatives was often at the highest  expenditure level, particularly through farm supply  expenditures; and, in general, as farm size increased, a  larger percent of cash grain farmers participated in  cooperatives with the exception of farmers in the largest  size classes.  In 1980, cash grain farmers in the Northern  Plains, Pacific, Northeast, Corn Belt, and Mountain regions  had the largest proportion of farmers involved in  cooperatives.  In 1986, the Northern Plains, Mountain,  Pacific, and Lake States had the largest proportion of cash  grain farmers involved in cooperatives.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/313031},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.313031},
}