Excerpt from How Cooperatives Helped Farmers in Time of Shortages The executive vice president of a regional co operative observes that: The fact that agriculture squeezed by in 1973 with minimum loss of produc tion was due in part to the extraordinary efforts of the farm supply cooperatives of our Nation. Cooperatives were among the first to recognize and call attention to the seriousness of the energy problem as it relates to food production. Months before the Government took action, cooperatives redirected their procurement and sales efforts to give top priority to farmers. Cooperatives' manufacturing and wholesaling facilities helped make supplies available. Their local distribution system was keyed naturally to serving agriculture. The president of a statewide cooperative said that cooperatives became known for another major objective or service, namely, supply availability. 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.