Excerpts: The information presented in this report is intended to be of value primarily to cooperative leaders who have had little contact or experience with seed marketing problems or operating practices. For this purpose, a general perspective is given of cooperative seed marketing objectives, development, problems, and general operating practices. Special emphasis and more detail is given regarding operating problems and practices, as it is believed that this information will be more useful to cooperative leaders actually interested in further development and improvement of cooperative seed marketing service. Cooperatives operating seed marketing services furnished the information presented in this report. A majority of the associations listed in table 1 and located in figure 1 were visited during the course of the study. Operating problems and practices were discussed with the association's manager. Most of the information and statistical data were obtained directly from the associations at the time of these visits. In addition, a limited amount of information pertaining to other associations was obtained by letter and from the records of the Historical and Statistical Section of the Cooperative Research and Service Division of the Farm Credit Administration.
