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Abstract
Excerpts from the report: This report contains information on developments, sales, processing, size, merchandising, and problems and opportunities of frozen food locker and freezer provisioning cooperatives. It should be helpful to managers and directors of these organizations in improving operations and in serving member-patrons better. This report is based on the results of an industrywide study of frozen food locker and freezer provisioners that the Farmer Cooperative Service made in 1965. Some 4,500 of the approximately 7,200 firms in the industry participated in the survey. Of these participating firms, 170 were cooperatives. The authors, therefore, were able to compare the average operations of these 170 cooperatives with the average of the entire industry. They also were able to identify important cooperative developments between 1955, 1960, and 1965, since similar studies were made in those years.