Excerpt from Cooperative Growth: Trends, Comparisons, Strategy Over the years much has been written and said about cooperative growth. Little in the way of specific material, however, has been presented that brings into proper perspective the nature and extent of such growth. 'neither has much been done to compare growth of cooperatives with growth of firms in comparable segments of the economy. Objective information on the subject is needed by cooperative leaders, teachers of cooperation at land-grant universities and other colleges, the general public, and policy makers on both the Federal and State level. Moreover, cooperative leaders recognize that such information would be especially useful in correcting much of the misinformation that prevails. This report, therefore, is designed to provide basic information on cooperative growth to help meet the needs of various publica having an interest in this subject. A number of factors have contributed to cooperative growth. They reflect the growing and changing needs of modern commercial agriculture. Farmers look to their off-farm business cooperatives to help them adjust to these needs. Among the factors contributing to cooperative growth are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.