@article{Stafford:52025,
      recid = {52025},
      author = {Stafford, Thomas H. and Roof, James B.},
      title = {Marketing Operations of Dairy Cooperatives},
      address = {1984},
      number = {1502-2016-130734},
      series = {ACS Research Report},
      pages = {50},
      year = {1984},
      abstract = {The Nation's 435 dairy cooperatives marketed 95.6 billion  pounds
of milk, or about 77 percent of all milk sold to  plants and dealers in
1980. There were 146 cooperatives  with no milk handling facilities, 97
with only milk and  cream receiving stations, and 192 operating 456
dairy  processing and manufacturing plants. Cooperatives sold  about
16 percent of the Nation's packaged fluid products,  10 percent of the
ice cream, 64 percent of the butter, 87  percent of the dry milk
products, 22 percent of the cottage  cheese, and 47 percent of all
other cheese made in the  United States. Additional data is given for
prior years on  transportation, producer payroll, and  financial
operations.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/52025},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.52025},
}