Marketing and Transportation of Grain by Local Cooperatives

A total of 2,002 local cooperative associations handled 5.1 billion bushels of grain during the 1985-86 marketing period. Cooperative grain storage totaled 3 billion bushels. Corn, at 1.3 billion bushels, was the leading grain marketed; wheat was second at slightly under 1 billion bushels. More than half the grain sold by cooperatives moved by truck.